Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre offered a glimpse inside its fight against COVID-19. We saw an already-full hospital coping with sick patients who keep on coming. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/a-front-line-stretched-thin #covid19mb
Every bed in the medical intensive care unit at Health Sciences Centre is full, and every ventilator in use.

"The hospital system, no matter how well it's running, no matter how well we've been able to uptick the capacity, can't sustain this." https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/a-front-line-stretched-thin #covid19mb
"The number of patients that we're sending up to MICU, the number of deaths that we are encountering, is far greater than we've experienced." #covid19mb
"You've just toured around our hospital that has taken burn units and stepdown units and every spare space we have to be COVID units for sick patients — patients who are going to die without that care.

“Fake news? I don’t know," he said. "You guys just filmed it.” #covid19mb
A special shout-out to @BrohmanCBC, Gary Solilak and @m_mikamac for taking the hospital tour, and the staff on-site who made time for media.

The footage and interviews were subsequently shared with Winnipeg media outlets.
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