Military help for pandemic-hit Ontario hospitals starts at Sunnybrook in Toronto on Friday
Canadian military health-care and other personnel will start helping Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre s field hospital and ICU in Toronto starting Friday, part of its deployment to Ontario hospitals strained under COVID-19 caseloads. Talks are ongoing about Hamilton s and other hospitals needs.
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Ontario has a record number of people in intensive care, with ICU admissions still rising and hundreds more facing weeks or months of rehabilitation after defeating COVID.
Despite hopeful glimmers that the province may be nearing the plateau of the third wave, the situation remains very much critical and unpredictable, health experts cautioned Monday.
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“Any change in our collective behaviour can result in cases continuing to increase it would be way too early to conclude that wave three has peaked and that we have turned the corner,” said Dr. Irfan Dhalla, an internal medicine doctor at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital and a vice-president at Unity Health Toronto.
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It was born in the 1960s, an ensemble of the best and brightest minds in their fields, tasked with providing advice to Canadians on routine childhood shots and other vaccines.
Nearly 60 years later, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization is facing accusations of having “lost the plot” and clumsily mishandling the AstraZeneca rollout. Its volunteer co-chair is fielding angry, frustrated emails from people urging her to resign. “You know what? I’d be very happy to resign, because this is not fun,” Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh said Wednesday in an interview with the
National Post.
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Ontario, the epicentre of Canada’s third wave of COVID-19, is currently subject to what Premier Doug Ford has called the “strictest measures in all of North America.”
On Tuesday, Ontario’s official COVID-19 Science Advisory Table issued an oblique criticism of the current lockdowns. In a statement, the team of more than three dozen public health researchers branded some of Ontario’s current restrictions as belonging to policies that “won’t work.” They are far from the first in Ontario to question the efficacy of measures that are unprecedented in Canada, including empowering police to ticket anyone outside their home without valid reason.