" A Manitoba emergency room nurse says her hospital is drowning and desperate for help, in the face of a flood of COVID-19 patients that is pushing staff and capacity to the brink.

"It has been completely and absolutely overwhelming," said Sarah Neufeld, who works at Bethesda Regional Health Centre in Steinbach, Man.

"We don't just have a full waiting room. We have a full waiting room and a full ER, of very sick and sometimes rapidly declining patients that require a lot of one-to-one care nursing that we can't give — we cannot safely give." "