Mon Oct 18, 2021 – 3:40 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has admitted it used COVID hospital training footage of a mannequin in an ICU on a ventilator in a video news segment to highlight the COVID situation in Alberta hospitals.
After many pointed out the ICU dummy on social media as being suspicious, CBC Edmonton last week said it was used in error.
“Earlier in October, we aired two stories on what patients can expect in a hospital ICU during the COVID crisis and the strain on nursing staff. We shot footage for these stories at two Edmonton training facilities that showed mannequins in beds and a realistic-looking hospital setting due to restrictions,” wrote CBC Edmonton. “Unfortunately, some of that same footage was then used in a different story about COVID projections and modelling last week. Using those images outside the context of the training facilities was inappropriate and we apologize for the error in judgement. The story has been corrected.”
The apology from CBC Edmonton came almost a week after a news segment aired showing the dummy.
An October 2 CBC news report showed images of a mannequin in the
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