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Article content Faced with rising demand for ICU beds and hospitalization due to COVID-19 rising case rates, Premier Doug Ford added restrictions to the stay-at-home orders already in place. These restrictions will be in place until May 21st. Keeping people at home does reduce the risk of transmission. However, not everyone can stay at home. Essential workers in factories and manufacturing plants, many working in close contact with each other often have no choice. In order to pay their bills an...

  TORONTO -- More than a year into the pandemic, Premier Doug Ford is considering an Ontario-based paid sick leave program as his government faces widespread condemnation of its handling of the third wave of COVID-19. Deputy Premier Christine Elliott confirmed that the government is considering "alternatives" to the Canada Sickness Recovery Benefit to fill "gaps" in the program -- first launched in the fall of 2020. The government insists it was hoping the program -- which retroactively pa...

Ontario lowers age for AstraZeneca, revises some COVID-19 lockdown measures amid public outrage Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Cole Burston/The Canadian Press The Ontario government is scrambling to remake its COVID-19 response plan after reversing new lockdown measures in the fa...

SHARE Dr Peter Juni feels like he has been screaming into the void for the past year. The scientific director of Ontario’s Science Advisory Table has spent the past dozen months advising the politicians of Canada’s largest province on how to get through the pandemic. So when the provincial government announced restrictions last week that went against much of his advice, Dr Juni was shocked. It was not the first time his advice went unheeded. In January, he and his colleagues warned the gove...

Posted: Apr 17, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 17 Doctors say Ontario ignored crucial 3rd wave warnings The National1 day ago 2:59 Public health officials have been warning the Ontario government about a crushing third wave for months, but health-care workers say the government didnt listen and its slow reactions may have cost lives.2:59 When Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the current stay-at-home order on April 7, he said the provinces COVID-19 crisis had become worse than predicte...

COVID-19 hot spot list left off 30 per cent of recommendations: advisory table Members of Ontarios COVID-19 science advisory table say the provincial government only included about 70 per cent of neighbourhoods it recommended be designated hot spots. Social Sharing

Published Thursday, April 8, 2021 6:52PM EDT TORONTO - An expert group is recommending Ontario clinicians ration doses of a drug used to treat COVID-19 as a supply shortage coincides with a third wave of infections thats sending more patients into intensive care. The scientists advising the province on the pandemic published revised clinical guidelines this week reflecting the shortage of tocilizumab, an anti-inflammatory drug approved in Canada to treat arthritis. A March re...

Holly McKenzie-Sutter Health-care workers wait in line at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. An expert group is recommending that Ontario clinicians ration doses of a drug used to treat COVID-19 patients in light of shortages. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette April 08, 2021 - 3:31 PM TORONTO - An expert group is recommending Ontario clinicians ration doses of a drug used to treat COVID-19 as a supply shortage coincides with a third wav...

A three-week lockdown in certain regions of the province is necessary to blunt the explosive growth of the variants of concern, Ontario’s COVID-19 scientific advisory table says.

WBFO Canada Correspondent Dan Karpenchuk The COVID-19 Ontario Science Advisory Table is a group of scientists and health experts who monitor, gather data and offer guidance on the pandemic. It’s an independent group, hosted by the University of Toronto. Their findings show that cases of the original strain of COVID-19 are decreasing while variants of concern are on the rise. During a presentation updating COVID-19 projections Thursday, Advisory Table Director Dr. Peter Juni said Ontario now f...