Her testimony is part of a Quebec coroner's Gehane Kamel's ongoing probe examining 53 deaths at six long-term care homes and one seniors residence during the pandemic's first wave.
New data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows that a COVID-19 hospital stay costs about three times more than for heart attack ($7,000).
Alberta has seen more than 1,000 new cases on average each day for the last two weeks, with more than 600 people in hospital, 147 of whom are in intensive care.
