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E.R. docs in southern Alberta pen public letter, urge vigilance during COVID-19

Emergency room doctors across southern Alberta have written a public letter regarding the increasing concerns around COVID-19.

The docs say they see “a potential disaster coming that may result in an overwhelmed health care system,” pointing specifically to what’s taking place right now in Italy. The doctors are concerned about “system overload.”

They’re urging residents in the region to do everything possible to try and slow down the spread of this virus.

The local emergency physicians say everyone should remember to wash their hands, avoid crowds, work from home if you can, and cancel travel plans.

The letter, signed by 16 emergency doctors in the region, goes on to say we all need to work together to try and alter the course of this pandemic.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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