GTA hospitals shifting resources in attempt to deal with surge in COVID patients
by Michael Ranger
Last Updated Apr 15, 2021 at 1:27 pm EDT
A digital Intensive Care Unit room at Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital in Vaughan, Ontario on Monday, January 18, 2021. The new hospital is being opened to take patients from other hospitals that are strained by COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
The number of patients flooding into GTA hospitals continues to grow with staff and resources being shuffled and patients being moved to deal with the demand.
Doctors are not only seeing more patients during the third wave, but many are showing up with much more severe symptoms of COVID-19.
Toronto residents 60 years of age and older will be able to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments at city-run clinics starting Friday after the province authorized the city to lower its age eligibility.
Last Updated Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:10PM EDT Toronto residents 60 years of age and older will be able to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments at city-run clinics starting Friday after the province authorized the city to lower its age eligibility. Mayor John Tory confirmed the approval on Thursday, a day after the city asked the Ontario government to lower the age restriction for booking a COVID-19 vaccine on the provincial portal. Beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday, residents born in 1961 or earlier can book a shot at a city-run mass immunization clinic. I encourage every resident who is eligible to get vaccinated, to do it this Easter weekend if they can. Our clinics are open throughout the Easter weekend and appointments are available, Tory said.
Humber River Hospital will now begin inoculating people 50 and older who live in the nearby catchment area as Phase 2 of Ontario s vaccine rollout targets hot spot areas.
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