- cross-posted to:
- medicine@lemmy.ca
Emergency rooms across Canada are facing a growing crisis — staffing shortages, burnout, worsening wait times, closures, a lack of adequate funding and a surge of patients seeking urgent care threatening to overwhelm a system on the brink of collapse.
And, of course, there’s also prior Covid infection(s), which can wreck the immune system. Covid infection can make one more susceptible to other illness.