Author Archives: Lisa Schick

Health Canada has yet to approve Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11, but Saskatchewan is looking to be ready for when that green light is given. The province unveiled its vaccinati...

Through the pandemic, about a third of cases in Saskatchewan have been in kids and teens, so as cases have gone up in Saskatchewan the last few months, so have cases in kids. However, those high numbe...

The crushing pressure COVID-19 cases are putting on Saskatchewan's health-care system is affecting the care patients are getting and that pressure could continue for months yet. Last spring, at the be...

For weeks, we've been hearing that the limiting factor in Saskatchewan hospitals isn't necessarily the equipment but the properly trained health-care workers — and top officials of the SEIU-West...

Many people are feeling the pressure of 20 months under a pandemic, particularly as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Saskatchewan and the health-care system reaches a breaking point. On Wednesday, D...

Saskatchewan's current situation in the COVID-19 pandemic is sad and frustrating and avoidable, according to the NDP. NDP MLA Vicki Mowat, the party's health critic, said the health system has collaps...

Hundreds of people every day in Saskatchewan are finding out they have COVID-19, but it's believed there are even more who don't know. Scott Livingstone, the CEO of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, ...

During Thursday night's virtual meeting with health-care professionals across the province, the top doctors in the Saskatchewan Health Authority painted a picture of dwindling hospital beds, patients ...

The head of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses isn't sure a "provincial command centre" is what the government should be worried about right now. On Thursday morning, Premier Scott Moe announced that pr...

Saskatchewan hospitals are full of COVID patients and on Thursday there were 78 people reported in ICU, which is one off the number of ICU beds the province has on a normal day. But at a news conferen...