Haggie contradicts self and Diamond on COVID deaths and health care impact

There have been excess deaths during the pandemic.

On Monday health minister John Haggie told the House of Assembly that eight people waiting for cardiac surgery at the province’s largest health authority over the past year had died without having surgery. That compared to a typical year when only four people on the wait list died.

But last week in the House of Assembly, Haggie boasted that there had bee…