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As COVID-19 cases hit record highs in Ontario, doctors are preparing to make life and death decisions about who will get critical care.
It is a “worst case scenario” that health officials in Ontario have been preparing for, but have avoided through earlier waves of the pandemic.
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This time, with the number of COVID patients in ICU beds at a record high of 542 on Friday morning and rapidly rising, there is growing concern that doctors at some hospitals will be forced to make decisions about who will get limited critical care resources, even with the majority of the most vulnerable frail elderly now vaccinated.
Worst case scenario critical care triage being considered as COVID cases spike in Ontario
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Worst case scenario critical care triage being considered as COVID cases spike in Ontario
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Hoarding can be a problem for people of all ages, an expert on the subject told viewers Thursday afternoon in the second instalment of a Cornwall-based series.
Hoarding is often associated with seniors, but it can affect “children who may be abandoned in hoarded homes, (and) adults, perhaps in their 50s, who are experiencing some form of hoarding,” said Christiana Bratiotis, with the University of British Columbia’s School of Social Work Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding, who was joining the livestream from Vancouver.
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