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foldingcouch t1_j0iv584 wrote

Reply to comment by xenocles_the_lesser in [OC] Provisional weekly death counts in Canada (all ages, both sex, from 01/2010 to 08/2022) by OlibriusR

Two things:

  • Hospitals everywhere in Canada are short on staff and high on cases as COVID continues to be a thing and ...
  • The flu is particularly bad this year, with a ton of pediatric patients eating up a lot of hospital beds and resources

So we have a double-hit of COVID season and flu season hitting at a time when hospital resources are already stretched beyond capacity - people are going to die.

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xenocles_the_lesser t1_j0iy3m4 wrote

You're saying "are" as if you're talking about the present flu season. Just to be clear, this spike was at the end of January.

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