As he walks through the emergency department of Richmond Hospital, Dr. Steven Fedder says he can’t stop thinking about what might be coming. “What I see coming toward us is a massive wave of patient need,” he said. “This is like a tsunami.” The emergency physician is just one of many frontline health-care workers speaking out as the directive to practice social distancing continues to be ignored.
Fedder warns that Canada is on the same trajectory as countries like Italy, which just saw its death toll related to COVID-19 climb to 6,077.
He wants the public to understand that the two health-care systems are similar and hospitals here could soon be in an equally dire situation. “They’re suffering so horrendously and I see the potential that if