Category: children’s hospital

Chinese City Plans Flu Lockdowns as Outbreaks Surge Across the Country, Top Virologist Warns of Next COVID-19 Wave

Fever cases in major cities across China are surging during the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) top Two Sessions annual meeting. Regime officials said it’s an outbreak of influenza A, as Xi’an plans a citywide flu lockdown. However, people are worried about a resurgence of COVID-19, following the massive wave of infections over December and January…


LIVE 5:05 PM ET: Bidens Visit Children’s National Hospital

U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden make a holiday visit to Children’s National Hospital in Washington, at 5:05 p.m. ET on Dec. 23. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …


Bidens Visit Children’s National Hospital

U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden make a holiday visit to Children’s National Hospital in Washington, at 5:05 p.m. ET on Dec. 23. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …


Bidens Visit Patients at Children’s National Hospital

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden and his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, visited Children’s National Hospital on the Friday before Christmas to visit with patients and read a story. Sitting in front of a towering Christmas tree, the president helped hold the book while the first lady read “The Snowy Day,” an award-winning story about a boy…


NDP Leader Requests Emergency Debate on Urgent Situation in Children’s Health Care

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has requested an emergency debate in the House of Commons to discuss the “urgent and escalating” situation in Canada’s children’s hospitals as they deal with an influx of sick kids. Singh wrote to the Speaker to give notice for the request, citing several alarming developments across the country. Just last week,…


Premiers to Hold Virtual News Conference on Struggling Children’s Hospitals

Canada’s premiers plan to hold a news conference in Winnipeg today as children’s hospitals struggle to deal with a wave of child illnesses. Hospitals across the country have been cancelling some surgeries and appointments as they redirect staff amid an increase in pediatric patients. Admissions are surging under a triple-threat of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza…


Canadian Red Cross to Help CHEO Amid Surge in Respiratory Illnesses in Children

A prominent children’s hospital in Ottawa will soon be receiving help from the Canadian Red Cross as it grapples with a massive wave of pediatric respiratory illnesses that have stretched resources to the breaking point, the organization announced Sunday. CHEO, previously known as the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, requested the additional support amid a…


Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto Reduces Surgeries to Preserve Critical Care

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto says it is reducing surgeries to preserve its critical care capacity as it deals with a surge of intensive care cases. The hospital says in a release that it has no choice as its ICU has been above 127 percent capacity for several days. It says it is…


Ottawa Kids’ Hospital Opens Second Intensive Care Unit as Viral Admissions Surge

An Ontario children’s hospital has opened a second intensive care unit to treat what it says is an unprecedented number of critically ill babies and young children. The Ottawa-based Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, or CHEO, says the peak viral season has arrived early, sending kids to the hospital at levels “never before seen” in…


Republican Senators Warn DOJ Not to Police Speech Against Transgender Surgeries on Children

Senate Republicans are warning Attorney General Merrick Garland not to target Americans who speak against transgender surgeries on children the way his department did to parents protesting at school board meetings. In a letter sent on Tuesday to Garland, a group of five senators said they remain concerned that he would repeat a pattern played…