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Today’s must-read
Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre has launched an investigation into the Tuesday-morning death of a middle-aged man who spent eight hours in the emergency department waiting room after arriving by ambulance.
The man’s death immediately raised comparisons to the tragic end of double-amputee Brian Sinclair’s life in 2008 following more than 30 hours in the same waiting room.
The ER was well over capacity and staff were dealing with several high acuity — seriously unwell — patients and an internal bottleneck in moving them when they noticed the man’s condition had significantly worsened in the waiting room, Dr. Shawn Young, chief operating officer of the central Winnipeg hospital, told reporters at a Tuesday-afternoon news conference. Chris Kitching has the story.
The Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg (David Lipnowski / The Canadian Press files)
On the bright side
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to US$11 billion.
Administrator Bill Nelson presented a revised scenario Tuesday, less than two weeks before stepping down as NASA’s chief when U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.
Nelson said he “pulled the plug” months ago on the original sample return plan given the soaring costs and the delay in getting anything back from Mars before 2040.
The space agency said it is considering two options that would cost in the US$6 billion to US$7 billion range, including one that would feature innovative designs by commercial partners. The Associated Press reports.
NASA Perseverance rover’s Martian rock sample collection, acquired over 2021 and 2022. (NASA via The Associated Press)
On this date
On Jan. 8, 1946: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that as officers sought the culprit behind the killing of a 13-year-old boy in Fort Rouge, police warned schoolboys and householders in the area to beware of strangers, as the suspect was thought to be responsible for other attacks against young boys in recent months. In Nuremberg, Germany, on trial, Nazi Herman Goering hurled curses at a prosecution witness who testified the German purpose in attacking the Soviet Union was to kill 30 million Slavs. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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