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BARRIE, ONT. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports 226 new cases and two recent deaths over the last three days. The health unit says a man between the ages of 65 and 79 connected to an out-of-region outbreak died Jan. 6. A woman older than 80 passed away Friday. She had been a patient at Georgian Bay General Hospital and is the seventh death associated with an outbreak declared at the Midland facility in early December. Seventy-three people with the virus have died in Simcoe Muskoka since the pandemic began, and the region has seen a total of 4,309 infections. There are 1,271 active cases. Thirty-five people with the virus are in hospitals across the region, including five in intensive care at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre.
Grieving mom marks sad milestone without son who died of overdose We can’t bring our loved ones back from the dead, but we can change things for the future, says mother of Jordan Sheard, who grew up in Barrie
Jan 10, 2021 2:30 PM By: Andrew Philips
A grieving mother doesn’t want other parents to have to go through the pain she’s experienced these last six months.
Tiny Township resident Angela Vos is working to reduce the prejudice surrounding opioid overdoses and what she sees as their close correlation to mental health and addictions issues.
In June, Vos lost her 26-year-old son, Jordan Sheard, who grew up in Barrie.
Water is again flowing from taps in Bracebridge, but residents should continue boiling that water until tests confirm it is safe to use directly from the source.