TORONTO An intensive care physician in Toronto says ICU triage is an eventuality as the province combats a third wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Michael Warner, head of critical care at Michael Garron Hospital, has been very vocal recently about the need for the Ontario government to implement more restrictions to reduce hospitalizations as the health-care system is swamped with COVID-19 patients. With a record 1,955 COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals in the past 24 hours and 701 of those in ICUs, Warner says hospitals are nearing the point of having to triage patients. “I mean every hospital has gone through simulation of this. It s been socialized, it’s been practiced, it s our greatest fear, and I actually can t see a situation where some form of triage doesn t take place,” he told CTV News Toronto.
Doctors say lowering age cut-off for AstraZeneca vaccine makes sense as cases surge
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Apr 16, 2021 at 3:58 pm EDT
CALGARY Doctors say the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine should be offered to Canadians in a wider age range as COVID-19 infections soar in many parts of the country.
Provinces limited eligibility for that vaccine to those 55 and older, after a small number of cases of an unusual and serious blood clotting condition appeared in younger people mostly women who had received a shot.
Dr. Daniel Gregson with the University of Calgary says the age limit can easily be dropped to as low as 35.
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By David Ljunggren and Allison Martell
OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) -Experts advising Canada’s most populous province of Ontario said on Friday new COVID-19 cases could more than double to 10,000 a day in June, and potentially overwhelm hospitals, even if a stay at home order is extended.
The dire forecast came as Moderna said it would cut its next delivery to Canada by nearly half to 650,000 doses, and Canada announced a deal to buy 8 million more Pfizer vaccine doses.
“Cases have risen. Hospitals have filled up,” Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of the province’s science advisory panel, told reporters. “The numbers are still rising, but the biggest problem we now face may be that we’re just too tired to notice.”
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