Oxygen Cutoff That Killed One at Quebec COVID ICU Last Summer Blamed on Human Error

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. NIAID-RML/AP/The Canadian Press

MONTREAL—A Montreal−area health authority is blaming human error after oxygen was cut off to nine intensive care COVID-19 patients last spring, leaving one dead.

The news about the incident that occurred at Hopital Charles−Le Moyne, in Longueuil, Que., was first reported by La Presse today.