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Ontario reported more than 2,100 COVID-19 cases on both Friday and Saturday, with 81 new deaths over that 48-hour period, as the number of patients in intensive care surpassed 300 for the first time. The province detected 2,159 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and 2,142 new cases on Saturday. “Today, there are 541 new cases in Toronto, 344 in Peel, 262 in York Region, 136 in Hamilton and 131 in Windsor-Essex,” Health Minister Christine Elliott wrote on Twitter. Officials said 43 people d...

Canada’s health care system buckling as governments reject measures to contain COVID-19 As COVID-19 infections continue to rise across Canada, dire warnings about the health care system’s inability to cope are growing. The number of intensive care patients in Ontario’s hospitals surpassed the peak of the first wave of the pandemic Monday and is fast approaching the level at which Doug Ford’s provincial government has acknowledged that it will be impossible to maintain adequate health ca...

Published Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:34AM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:58AM EST There are now more COVID-19 patients in Ontario’s intensive care units than at any other point during the pandemic as concerns continue to mount around the healthcare system’s ability to withstand the strain. The latest Critical Care Services Ontario report obtained by CP24 suggests that were 285 COVID-19 patients in intensive care as of Dec. 21, exceeding t...

  TORONTO -- There are now more COVID-19 patients in Ontario’s intensive care units than at any other point during the pandemic as concerns continue to mount around the health-care system’s ability to withstand the strain. The latest Critical Care Services Ontario report obtained by CP24 suggests that there were 285 COVID-19 patients in intensive care as of Dec. 21, exceeding the first wave peak of 283 for the first time. Nearly 40 per cent of all COVID-19 patients being treated in int...

5 Ontario regions tightening restrictions, Peel and Toronto to remain in lockdown Ontario is tightening public health restrictions in five regions as hospitals say they are inundated with COVID-19 patients.  Social Sharing CBC News · Ontario tightens COVID-19 restrictions in 5 more regions The National3 months ago 2:37 Ontario is in the midst of extending lockdowns in hot spots and tightening restrictions in other regions.2:37 comments Ontario is tightening public health restrictions in f...

Docs Metro Morning7:00This could be your family: Dr. Michael Warner on losing 5 isolated, COVID-19 patients this week This could be your family: Dr. Michael Warner on losing 5 isolated, COVID-19 patients this week 3 months ago 7:00 There are more COVID-19 patients in intensive care units right now than at any other point in the pandemic. Thats led the Ontario Hospitals Association to call on the Premier to tighten restrictions and impose harsher lockdowns. 86 more people died from COVID-19 this...

Last Updated Thursday, December 17, 2020 3:48PM EST Ontario Premier Doug Ford appeared receptive Thursday to the idea that a widespread lockdown is needed to stop the alarming rise in COVID-19 infection across the province, suggesting the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area could be targeted. Repeating five times in 15 minutes that he would not hesitate to act and that “everything is on the table,” Ford remarked that the GTA and Hamilton area appears to be generating the li...

Written by SHERALYN ROMAN I’m not sure where your head is at, but I know mine is crying out for some simple common sense. Or, at the very least, what appears to be common sense in my opinion and certainly in the opinion of many of my acquaintances. With our COVID numbers continuing to climb, another holiday season fast approaching and the inconsistent application of lockdowns across arbitrary municipal borders, it’s creating a “free for all” out there which can only make matters worse t...

Published Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:04PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:16PM EST There are more patients in Ontario intensive care units than at any other point in the COVID-19 pandemic and the medical director of critical care at one Toronto hospital is now warning of a “very difficult” January. According to a daily critical care report obtained by CP24, there were a total of 1,765 patients receiving treatment in the ICU as of Monday, i...

  TORONTO -- There are more patients in Ontario intensive care units than at any other point in the COVID-19 pandemic and the medical director of critical care at one Toronto hospital is now warning of a “very difficult” January. According to a daily critical care report obtained by CP24, there were a total of 1,765 patients receiving treatment in the ICU as of Monday, including 267 with confirmed cases of COVID-19. The report pegs the total number of ICU beds in the province at 2,136,...