"What's difficult with COVID, is that a lot of times with life-threatening situations, we're used to having the families there in the unit," Demers-Marcil said. A health-care worker makes his way through the pandemic response unit at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary on Nov. 14. (Submitted by AHS/Leah Hennel)Health-care workers tend to a COVID-19 patient in the ICU. (Submitted by AHS/Leah Hennel)Staff on the ICU Unit at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary on April 17, 2020. (Submitted by AHS/Leah Hennel)Health-care workers attend to a ICU COVID-19 patient at Peter Lougheed Centre on Nov. 14, 2020.

Source: CBC News November 22, 2020 16:39 UTC