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Dr. Joseph Varon, Chief of Critical Care Services and the Covid-19 Unit at United Memorial Medical Center who has worked 407 consecutive days since the start of the pandemic, speaks to Nicolle Wallace about the patients he is caring for now and how he has been urging them to get vaccinatedApril 30, 2021
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By Shawn Jeffords and Holly McKenzie-Sutter
TORONTO A paid sick-leave program is coming to Ontario within days, the province said Wednesday as critics accused the government of endangering essential workers by delaying action on the issue for months.
Public health experts, labour groups and local officials have been calling for sick-leave support for much of the pandemic, arguing it would reduce COVID-19 spread in workplaces.
After months of saying a provincial plan would needlessly overlap with a federal measure, the Progressive Conservatives said they’d introduce a policy that would fill “gaps” in Ottawa’s benefit, including reducing wait times for funds, expanding eligibility, and providing time off to get vaccinated.
Doctors in Louisville Metro seeing more young people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 Share Updated: 11:52 PM EDT Apr 17, 2021 Share Updated: 11:52 PM EDT Apr 17, 2021
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Show Transcript WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE, WE ARE BEGINNING TO INCREASE AGAIN. IT IS STARTLING. DREW: AFTER WEEKS OF DECLINING CASES, MANY STATES ARE STARTING TO SEE MORE POSITIVE COVID-19 CASES AS SEVERAL VARIANTS BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD. SINCE MARCH 23, WE ARE UP ABOUT 29% IN CASES NATIONALLY. IF YOU LOOK AT HOTSPOTS LIKE MICHIGAN, THEY ARE UP 120 PERCENT. DREW: JEFFERSON COUNTY HAS ONLY SEEN A SLIGHT INCREASE IN CASES, BUT ACCORDING TO DR. JON KLEIN WITH U OF L HEALTH, HE’S SEEING MORE YOUNG PEOPE IMPACTED BY THE VIRUS. YOUNGER PEOPLE BEING ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL. YOUNG IS A RELATIVE TERM. STILL, YOUNGER THAN WHAT WE SAW BACK IN JANUARY. DREW: U OF L HEALTH’S DR. MARK BURNS HAS SEEN THE SAME IN HIS PRACTICE. WE NEED TO NOT ONLY DOUBLE D
Sicker and younger : Toronto ICU copes with pressure during third wave of pandemic
by Holly McKenzie-Sutter, The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 15, 2021 1:30 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 15, 2021 at 4:48 pm EDT
TORONTO – Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication, and monitoring her heart rate.
The 68-year-old woman tested positive for a COVID-19 variant shortly after arriving at Toronto’s Humber River Hospital for an unrelated health concern. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and she had to be placed on a ventilator, suffering a cardiac arrest after the intubation process.
Abas says the woman is more stable this morning, but as cases involving the variants of the novel coronavirus rise, a patient’s situation can change quickly.