(The Cranston Ridge Medical Clinic was photographed on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Photo by Gavin Young /Postmedia)
A Calgary doctor is defending a message he posted outside his southeast Calgary medical clinic that suggests COVID-19 is ‘similar’ to the flu in the number of people it harms and kills
January 23, 2021
A Calgary infectious disease specialist disputes a claim seen on a document previously posted in the window of a southeast Calgary medical clinic, which suggested COVID-19 is “similar” to the flu in the number of people it harms and kills.
The document, titled “Facts About COVID-19,” showed statistics that say nationally, 96 per cent of Canadians have tested negative for the virus, three per cent of those who contracted it died, and 97 per cent survived.
