The New Reality: Feb. 26

We’ve heard politicians, protestors and businesses say we need to move on from COVID-19 public health restrictions and “learn to live with it.” Most health professionals were on the other side of that debate – until now. On this week’s episode of The New Reality, Jeff Semple speaks with those on the frontlines: the doctors who see the toll the virus has taken on our mental health and those who are still at highest risk of dying from the virus – the immunocompromised. Plus, for the first nine months of the pandemic, Menno Place in Abbotsford, BC, safeguarded its residents. But when COVID finally hit, the wave of illness and death was devastating. Now, another crisis – staffing shortages. Dawna Friesen speaks with its CEO Karen Biggs about the problem plaguing long-term care homes across Canada, and some solutions.