Letter to Kenney - Covid-19’s 4th Wave Response
September 7, 2021 Dear Honourable Jason Kenney (Premier of Alberta), Honourable Tyler Shandro (Minister of Health for Alberta) and Dr. Deena Hinshaw (Chief Public Medical Officer of Alberta). Hello. My name is Laura Jean Rutherford. I am a Calgary resident living in a Community Care Living facility on a LTC unit. I am 50 years old. I need to live in this facility as I contracted a virus which caused an autoimmune disease - Guillian Barre Syndrome, which has left me a quadriplegic. I have resided at my facility since August 2018, therefore experienced what it is like living in LTC during a national/global health crisis of COVID-19. I have also worked in the healthcare field for over 25 years in the Health Records Department in acute care hospitals. During our second wave (October 2020 to February 2021), our facility was hit the hardest in Calgary with over 350 COVID-19 cases of residents and staff and too many preventable COVID-19 deaths, in my opinion, due to the UCP government’s