Global National: Dec. 4, 2022 | "Tridemic" causing new health-care impacts across Canada
CA, 05 Dec 2022
On this episode of Global National: This cold and flu season has come in with a punch, and the combination of medicine shortages and overwhelmed hospitals has led to parents and medical professionals taking on more than they could handle. In Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., cases of the flu are higher than they've been in decades. But is our immunity compromised, is it a lack of vaccines or a combination of both? Ross Lord gets some answers in tonight's top story.
In the U.S., there's been a major surge in cases and hospitalizations for the flu and COVID-19 after the Thanksgiving holiday. Flu hospitalizations haven't been this high, this early in the season, in over a decade. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has tracked about 9-million cases of the flu and 4,500 deaths. And COVID-19 cases are spiking too. As Jennifer Johnson reports, hospitals across the country are struggling to keep up.
In consumer news, record-high inflation is hitting many Canadians hard. It's especially making a difference at a time of the year when people spend — and give — money. Marney Blunt has more on how many families will juggle rising costs with the expenses of the holiday season.
Plus, thousands of delegates are gathering in Montreal as the United Nations' (UN) COP 15 Summit starts on Wednesday. With the UN reporting that the earth is experiencing its largest loss of life since the dinosaurs, the event to examine ways to preserve biodiversity and protect global ecosystems couldn't come at a more crucial time. As Amanda Jelowicki tells us, what the delegates will agree to is still being negotiated.
In Saskatchewan, resident Dwayne Belcourt is asking health officials to re-consider their rules for organ and tissue donations after his late husband Merril Donkin's tissues were disqualified. “They basically asked me if [Donkin] had intimate relations with a man in the last five years,” Belcourt explained. Kabi Moulitharan has the story.
And finally, Dr. Anthony Fauci, U.S. President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, spoke with Global News' Washington Bureau Chief Jackson Proskow, as he prepared to step down after more than five decades of service in the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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In the U.S., there's been a major surge in cases and hospitalizations for the flu and COVID-19 after the Thanksgiving holiday. Flu hospitalizations haven't been this high, this early in the season, in over a decade. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has tracked about 9-million cases of the flu and 4,500 deaths. And COVID-19 cases are spiking too. As Jennifer Johnson reports, hospitals across the country are struggling to keep up.
In consumer news, record-high inflation is hitting many Canadians hard. It's especially making a difference at a time of the year when people spend — and give — money. Marney Blunt has more on how many families will juggle rising costs with the expenses of the holiday season.
Plus, thousands of delegates are gathering in Montreal as the United Nations' (UN) COP 15 Summit starts on Wednesday. With the UN reporting that the earth is experiencing its largest loss of life since the dinosaurs, the event to examine ways to preserve biodiversity and protect global ecosystems couldn't come at a more crucial time. As Amanda Jelowicki tells us, what the delegates will agree to is still being negotiated.
In Saskatchewan, resident Dwayne Belcourt is asking health officials to re-consider their rules for organ and tissue donations after his late husband Merril Donkin's tissues were disqualified. “They basically asked me if [Donkin] had intimate relations with a man in the last five years,” Belcourt explained. Kabi Moulitharan has the story.
And finally, Dr. Anthony Fauci, U.S. President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, spoke with Global News' Washington Bureau Chief Jackson Proskow, as he prepared to step down after more than five decades of service in the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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