This week health minister John Haggie said that we are at or quite near the peak of this current wave of hospitalizations and deaths due to covid 19.

And let's hope so. Officials have said our health-care system can manage between 40 and 60 COVID-19 hospitalizations. 43 people were in hospital as of Monday, with nine in critical care.

There are other concerns as well, including the new omicron subvariant BA.2, which now accounts for as much as 40 percent of the samples screened in the province.

What does that all mean? We'll try to get an idea on this pandemic check-up episode of Crosstalk.