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Canadas health care workers brace for the painful blow of a punishing third wave CNN 2 hrs ago By Paula Newton, CNN © Nathan Denette/AP Head intensivist Dr. Ali Ghafouri, second left, meets with his team in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. For days now, as the Covid-19 case count mounted and hospital admissions surged, Canadians seemed dismayed and asked: How could this happen here, where most people dutifully follo...

We’ve allowed this to happen: Why its 2021 and Ontario is still headed for a COVID cliff What happens in everyone’s brain is that we get a mixture of judgments about what’s true, with what we want to be true Author of the article: Sharon Kirkey Publishing date: Apr 16, 2021  •  1 hour ago  •  5 minute read  •  Healthcare workers get ready to prone a 47-year-old woman who has COVID-19 and is intubated on a ventilator in the intensive car...

The Ford government will introduce new restrictions on inter-provincial travel and close down non-essential construction sites and recreational amenities in an effort to curb the rampant spread of COVID-19.

Ontario has logged more than 4,800 new COVID-19 cases for the first time in the pandemic, breaking a record for the most daily infections for a second day in a row.

Ontario could see 30,000 cases per day in May without stricter measures: modelling 1:30 pm Modelling projections presented on Friday by the Ontario science advisory table show the province could experience up to 30,000 new COVID-19 cases per day by the end of May without stricter measures. In the best-case scenario, the province’s curve would flatten around 5,000 cases or less over the next six-weeks assuming Ontario continues doing at least 100,000 vaccinations per day. “Without stronger s...

  TORONTO -- An intensive care physician in Toronto says ICU triage is "an eventuality" as the province combats a third wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Michael Warner, head of critical care at Michael Garron Hospital, has been very vocal recently about the need for the Ontario government to implement more restrictions to reduce hospitalizations as the health-care system is swamped with COVID-19 patients. With a record 1,955 COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals in the past 24 ho...

April 15, 2021   ·   0 Comments Dear Ms. Jones, I have some genuine questions that I would like to ask you: how many paid sick days do you have as a Member of Provincial Parliament?  And if you don’t have any paid sick days, do you feel financially secure as a salaried government employee to be able to take a day off of work if needed?  And are you able to make up that work at a later time because you are salaried?  Or if you don...

  TORONTO -- More than a thousand registered nurses will be required to move into intensive care to staff the 350 new beds promised by the Ontario government as COVID-19 causes a record high number of patients in need of critical care. Hundreds of nurses are expected to answer the call as volunteers or as part of a deployment within hospitals that now have cancelled or delayed surgeries as part of emergency measures during the pandemic. “My hunch is we will have a few hundred,” said Do...

Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press Last week, Canada’s top doctor called for stronger measures to control the out-of-control spread of COVID-19 and its variants across the country. “The race between the vaccine and the variants is at a critical point,” Dr. Theresa Tam told reporters. But I didn’t hear Dr. Tam utter those words at her news conference, and I’m betting the majority of the country didn’t either. I’m sure a few people quickly glanced at news accounts in publications such a...

Hospitals across Ontario will begin to ramp down all elective, non-emergency surgeries beginning Monday. The instruction, given Friday, was to preserve