Emergency doctors say city councillor wrong about them being ‘muzzled’ over COVID-19
A group of 21 physicians who make up the emergency room team at Red Deer Regional Hospital says it unanimously disagrees with comments made this week by City Councillor Buck Buchanan.
During a meeting this past Monday (Nov. 23) where council carried third reading for a bylaw making face coverings mandatory in all indoor public places and vehicles, Buchanan made comments about doctors being muzzled and the public not getting the information it should about COVID-19.
Buchanan said he’d talked with a local emergency room doctor who told him as much.
Asked to elaborate on his remarks, Buchanan talked to rdnewsNOW about ICU beds, and said his understanding from the conversation was that carpet fibres could cause a COVID-19 test to be positive.