Published Sunday, April 4, 2021 12:30PM EDT Toronto Mayor John Tory says the province needs to retool its COVID-19 vaccine priority list to focus on hardest-hit regions and essential workers, and stop just moving down the age pyramid to determine eligibility, as the number of patients in Ontario hospital ICUs hit a new record. Tory says that the spread in areas where essential workers cannot stay home is unacceptable and the current regime of vaccine rollout is not reaching them. “We need to be taking vaccines out to higher risk places of employment – taking vaccines out to buildings in higher risk neighbourhoods so we can proactively go and put those needles in arms,” Tory said on CP24 on Sunday morning.
TORONTO An Ontario woman in her 40s is dead after she contracted COVID-19 from her husband, who got sick after being told to go to work despite there being a known COVID-19 outbreak at the factory where he was employed, her doctor says. Dr. Michael Warner, medical director of critical care at Michael Garron Hospital, said the woman s husband was told that since the outbreak wasn t among employees on his shift, he still had to go into work and wasn t entitled to pay if he chose not to. Warner has not identified the family for privacy reasons, but said he s sharing their story in the hopes lessons can be learned about outbreaks in essential workplaces.
Situation in Ontario ICUs like a never-ending fire amid COVID-19 3rd wave, says nurse
Ontario is currently grappling with a third wave of COVID-19 infections largely driven by variants of concern. According to the province s science round table, the variants lead to greater hospitalizations and ICU occupancy, and are affecting younger people more seriously.
Social Sharing We re going to fight the fire, but the fire is going to be there when we leave, says Clare Fielding
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Posted: Apr 02, 2021 7:05 PM ET | Last Updated: April 3
Doctors are warning that intensive care units in Ontario could reach capacity within weeks, as a third wave of COVID-19 ramps up, driven by variants of concern.(Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
Situation in Ontario ICUs like a never-ending fire amid COVID-19 third wave, says nurse
Ontario is currently grappling with a third wave of COVID-19 infections, largely driven by variants of concern. According to the province s science round table, the variants lead to greater hospitalizations and ICU occupancy, and are affecting younger people more seriously.
Social Sharing We re going to fight the fire, but the fire is going to be there when we leave, says Clare Fielding
CBC Radio ·
Posted: Apr 02, 2021 7:05 PM ET | Last Updated: April 2
Doctors are warning that intensive care units in Ontario could reach capacity within weeks, as a third wave of COVID-19 ramps up, driven by variants of concern.(Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
Ontario tops 3,000 new COVID-19 cases Saturday, ICU numbers reach pandemic high
by News staff
Last Updated Apr 3, 2021 at 10:50 am EDT
A man walks past a COVID-19 retail supplies sign during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Feb. 5, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Ontario has topped 3,000 new COVID-19 new cases for the first time since Jan. 17 as the record for patients in the Intensive Care Unit hit a pandemic COVID-19 pandemic record of patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
There were 3,009 cases reported Saturday with over 59,100 tests completed. Another 16 deaths related to COVID-19 were also reported.
Toronto saw the highest number of cases with 954 while Peel reported 434, and 348 cases in York Region. Outside the GTA, Ottawa had 205 new COVID-19 cases and Hamilton reported 146.