A year into the pandemic, nurses are angry, exhausted

It took the Public Health Agency of Canada until January 2021 to acknowledge what unions and many experts have said all along. Health-care workers are at risk of airborne transmission when in close proximity to an infected person.

As new variants circulate in Canada, dramatically increasing the rate of transmission, burned-out health-care workers are under even more pressure. Without action, health staffing, which is already in short supply, could become depleted even further.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Linda Silas

March 17, 2021

As the anniversary for March 11 anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic has come and gone, nurses across Canada are at their breaking point. We are exhausted, burned out—and angry. Nurse...

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