COVID-19 might have a lessened impact on many residents compared to last month, or earlier in the pandemic, but nurses are still in the thick of the pandemic and some say the ongoing protest in Ottawa has left them tired and defeated.
Hospital staff have cared for patients throughout the pandemic, but the situation reached a crisis point in this past wave with severe staff shortages, outbreaks, and new COVID-19 hospitalization records. Ottawa, for example, set a new pandemic high with 142 patients hospitalized with active COVID on Jan. 16.
Less than two weeks after that record was set, the convoy arrived
