Front Burner

The 'agonizing' front lines of Edmonton's 2nd wave

Two Edmonton doctors share their perspectives from the front lines of the pandemic as Alberta grapples with the highest number of active cases in the country.
Health-care workers tend to an ICU COVID-19 patient at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary in this file photo from Nov. 14, 2020. (Leah Hennel/Alberta Health Services)

New restrictions have been announced in Alberta as the province struggles with the highest rate of new coronavirus infections in the country. As hospitalizations rise, we check in with two Edmonton doctors on the front lines of the pandemic, to hear about the impact they're seeing the virus have up close: Dr. Darren Markland is an intensive care unit physician, and Dr. Shazma Mithani is an emergency room physician and the spokesperson for the section of emergency medicine within the Alberta Medical Association.