Ontario’s science advisers called for a six-week stay-at-home order and a focused vaccination strategy as they warned Friday that the province’s COVID-19 infections could climb higher than 15,000 cases per day without stronger measures.
The dire predictions came as the government pleaded with other provinces to send in nurses and health workers while its hospital system buckled under surging cases.
“Our progress is both frustrating and frightening,” Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario’s science advisory panel, said in presenting the latest projections.
Ontario reported 4,812 new cases another record on Friday, up from Thursday’s record of 4,736. It also reported 25 more deaths related to the virus.
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Sicker and younger : Toronto ICU copes with pressure during third wave of pandemic
by Holly McKenzie-Sutter, The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 15, 2021 1:30 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 15, 2021 at 4:48 pm EDT
TORONTO – Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication, and monitoring her heart rate.
The 68-year-old woman tested positive for a COVID-19 variant shortly after arriving at Toronto’s Humber River Hospital for an unrelated health concern. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and she had to be placed on a ventilator, suffering a cardiac arrest after the intubation process.
Abas says the woman is more stable this morning, but as cases involving the variants of the novel coronavirus rise, a patient’s situation can change quickly.