Jennifer Gunville, 30, is among the 51% of nursing students in the province who took the September exam and failed to get the minimum passing grade—55%.
Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma says the first signs of supply issues arose in April but it wasn't until August that companies warned their efforts to increase supplies were failing.
The agency's FluWatch report says Canada has now entered a flu epidemic, which is declared most years after the threshold of a 5% positivity rate is surpassed.
