‘Living with the virus’: Feds outline what that should look like – CTV
February 11, 2022
Amid ongoing protests over vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions in Ottawa and elsewhere, Canada’s top health officials outlined what “living with the virus” would look like, saying it should mean fewer deaths, a health-care system that is not overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, and timely surgeries for patients with serious diseases.
“Living with the virus means that people have to stop dying because of it in such large numbers,” Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos said during the Public Health Agency of Canada’s weekly COVID-19 briefing on Friday.
“Secondly, living with the virus means that the virus in our health-care system must be able to coexist without the latter being paralyzed, without cancer patients being told that their surgeries will have to wait because our hospitals and our health-care workers are overwhelmed by COVID-19.”
