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Published Friday, April 30, 2021 4:23PM EDT A military task force that includes critical care nurses has been begun work at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, marking a new chapter in what has already been a devastating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 58 Canadian Forces members have been deployed to Sunnybrook to provide support in its ICU unit as well as the temporary field hospital that has been set up on its grounds. The troops arrived at the hospital on Tuesday but today marks the first day that they are involved directly in patient care. “The type of tasks that they will be doing specifically includes triage, patient care and patient management and the goal is to integrate as closely as possible and be able to assist the Sunnybrook staff where they deem it is needed the most,” Lieutenant Colonel Franz Kirk, who is leading the task force, told reporters on Friday afternoon. “I would say it is two-thirds in the tent and one