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New figures suggest the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) has secured some additional ventilators but still has hundreds more on order to treat people in a potential surge of serious COVID-19 cases. In critical cases, COVID-19 attacks the lungs and restricts breathing to the point where a patient needs a ventilator to stay alive. Early last week, the health authority said it had 91…

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is planning to form triage committees that would decide who gets life-saving treatment if COVID-19 floods the health system with too many severely ill patients. The committees would apply a range of factors to ration scarce equipment, including ventilators that allow patients to breathe. They would decide when to withdraw that treatment to save more lives.…

Ever since COVID-19 arrived in Saskatchewan, many shoppers have found empty shelves when looking for staples like flour or rice at local grocery stores. While COVID-19 is a major challenge, there’s no need to stock up a doomsday bunkers’ worth of supplies while leaving nothing for our neighbours, said Richard Gray, a professor of agriculture and resource economics at the University…

Canada’s death toll from the novel coronavirus has now surpassed 100 following an announcement of five more deaths in B.C. As of Tuesday, Canada’s COVID-19 death toll now sits at 101 while confirmed cases have now reached 8,579. The new numbers come amid a surge of cases in Quebec and Ontario. Quebec — the new epicentre of Canada’s outbreak — reported…

The Saskatchewan hotel industry is getting ready to offer up rooms in the event that COVID-19 overwhelms the number of beds available in the province’s hospitals. The Saskatchewan Hotel and Hospitality Association (SHHA) has created an emergency preparedness plan and shared it with the Ministry of Health and the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA). Jim Bence, president of the SHHA, has…