Opinion: Canada’s well being care programs should do extra to guard at-risk folks from the flu

Dr. Samir Sinha is the director of well being coverage analysis on the Nationwide Institute on Growing older and the director of geriatrics at Sinai Well being and the College Well being Community.

Yearly in Canada, the flu causes an estimated 175,000 emergency division visits, greater than 12,000 hospitalizations and three,500 deaths, making it considered one of Canada’s main causes of dying. Older folks and people with sure power well being situations are particularly prone to extreme sickness and influenza-related issues.

If Australia’s expertise this yr is any indication, their file variety of flu circumstances suggests we’re solely at the

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