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Across Canada, thousands of people have died as a consequence their elective surgeries have been delayed to make room for Covid ICU admissions.

In Alberta ICU admissions are 60x higher for the unvaccinated than the vaccinated in their 50s.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-severe-outcom...



Nothing to do with covid and everything to do with socialized medicine.

Canada has always had very long surgery wait times:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-care-wait-times-hit-20-...

edit: not irrelevant, it's yet another problem being blamed on covid when it's really Canada's mismanagement of their healthcare system.


That's irrelevant. I'm talking about what's changed since the pandemic began.




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