Ontario’s Chaotic Third Wave: A Timeline
Rushed decisions, overstretched hospitals and a scramble for vaccines: how the Doug Ford government fumbled its way into the province’s third wave. Fatima Syed Updated
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On February 11, one of Ontario’s top doctors gave us a bleak picture of the province’s COVID future.
Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, and Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer, unveiled modelling data that indicated the province was heading to a third wave, spurred by new variants, and that cases would rise dramatically unless stay-at home orders continued.
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Quinte Health Care’s front-line teams need full vaccination against COVID-19, their president says, but Ontario’s solicitor general says a lack of vaccine means they’ll have to keep waiting for now.
Most QHC clinical staff and doctors have received their first doses but not the second ones required for maximum protection. Yet they’re caring for COVID-19 patients from the area and elsewhere while also dealing with an outbreak at Belleville General Hospital.
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By Raywat Deonandan
Recently, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones was asked on CBC Radio why Ontario had waited so long to enact COVID-19 restrictions doctors and scientists had been pleading for. Earlier, Ontarioâs Science Table had observed a worrying growth trend in cases and ICU usage and had forecast a dire, explosive situation weeks away.
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Jones replied, âWe wanted to make sure that the modelling was actually showing up in our hospitals.â
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