Fri Oct 15, 2021 – 3:06 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) – Alberta Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw was forced to apologize Thursday for incorrectly saying a 14-year-old died of COVID when in fact he passed as a result of terminal stage four brain cancer.
“I first want to apologize to the family of the 14-year-old whose death I spoke about on Tuesday,” Hinshaw said Thursday.
“The pain of losing a child is terrible enough without having that loss compounded by a public debate about circumstances.”
Alberta will no longer report deaths of those with COVID under age 18 until a “review” can be completed.
The backtrack by Hinshaw came after Simone Spitzer, the sister of the 14-year-old boy, in a Facebook post Tuesday blasted government officials and the media for wrongly labeling his death from COVID.
The boy was already in palliative care fighting brain cancer and had only tested positive for the virus a few days before his death, Spitzer said.
“The 14-year-old on the article is my brother. He died from stage 4 brain cancer, not from covid,” Spitzer wrote.
“This is fake news. He was diagnosed in January 2021 and hospitalized in August. Two days before his
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