Mother of hospitalized 5-year-old says her decision not to get vaccinated was a 'big mistake'
CBC
A Regina mother says she's grappling with regret over not getting vaccinated sooner after her five-year-old son ended up in the hospital with COVID-19.
"If you're unsure about getting vaccinated, you should really think twice about it because this virus is very real," said 25-year-old Janis Bennett.
"And I didn't think it would get me, because I did my part in sanitizing, keeping safe, social distancing and not going out when I don't need to go out."
She wasn't sure which vaccine to get, due to high blood pressure and other health concerns. That delay turned out to be a "big mistake," she said.
Earlier this month, she developed what she thought was a sinus infection. She was low on energy and just wanted to lie in bed, but then she lost her sense of smell as well.
On Tuesday, Sept. 21, she woke up to find her normally active, playful son Maverick in a very sick state.
"He wasn't really responding to me. He went to the bathroom, he didn't want to eat."
At a time when Canada is vastly expanding its child-care system, and just eight months after a major E. coli outbreak in Calgary child-care centres, an Alberta Health Services analysis shows the province is lagging in its rate of daycare inspections, falling far short of its guideline of at least two inspections per year at each of the province's licensed daycare centres.