But many of Canada's health care workers had warned that some provincial governments reopened too quickly after a difficult post-Christmas surge. Provincial governments across the country are now reckoning with a damaging Covid-19 third wave that might imperil the universal health care system of which Canadians are so fiercely proud. Health care workers are "beyond angry" about the situation, Warner said. And in Ontario, many health care providers say that, given their scarcity in Canada , vaccines should have been more quickly allocated to marginalized communities. Some health care workers, however, are resigned that those programs were not put in place quickly enough to spare them and their patients from the ravages of a third wave that's much worse than the first two.

Source: CNN April 18, 2021 10:02 UTC