As the mayors in Peel Region make a push to reopen in the red zone when the stay-at-home order is lifted, the head of a hospital network said Friday he is on the fence about the move.
Canada’s governments lift COVID-19 restrictions despite warnings of deadly third wave
Highlighting “the emergence and spread” of more contagious variants of the COVID-19 virus, Canada’s chief medical officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, told a press conference last Friday, “Unless we maintain and abide by stringent public health measures, we may not be able to avert a re-acceleration of the epidemic in Canada. These variants have been smouldering in the background and now threaten to flare up.”
Tam backed up her warnings with Health Canada projections that showed new infections could rise to 10,000 per day by late March if current public health restrictions are maintained, and mushroom to 20,000 if these restrictions are relaxed. “Further lifting of the public health measures would cause the epidemic to re-surge rapidly and strongly,” she declared.
William Osler Health System Implements Picis Anesthesia Manager
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Picis Integrating Anesthesia Manager into our day-to-day clinical operations has helped our team automate and streamline a range of tasks, which improves the quality and safety of our patient care - Pooja Pundhir, Project Manager at Osler. WAKEFIELD, Mass. (PRWEB) February 23, 2021 A longstanding user of Picis solutions since 2006, William Osler Health System (Osler) expressed a desire to implement the Anesthesia Record Keeping system, to enhance their existing solutions OR Manager, SmarTrack and Critical Care Manager.
Through the functionality of the system, paper-based charting was eliminated, and the Anesthesia Documentation and Process became more efficient and accurate.
We have featured him in The Tyee because he has grasped realities our political leaders haven’t.
“Success in a pandemic is not waiting for a vaccine,” says Bar-Yam. “It’s about using an arsenal of tools, including vaccines, to defeat the virus while we have the chance.”
Going to zero therefore means a serious five to seven-week lockdown that brings numbers down exponentially.
It means financially supporting struggling small businesses and their workers during that lockdown.
It means changing our testing programs from passive systems that wait for symptomatic citizens to show up, to an active approach that brings tests to the most at-risk communities and workplaces.
Vaccinated January 6, 2021
“In my day-to-day, I see patients who are undergoing treatment for cancer: chemotherapy, radiation, surgery. It was clear from the onset of the pandemic that these patients all of them highly vulnerable still needed care and needed to come into the hospital. I don’t see the vaccine as representative of the end of the pandemic; I see it as an extra layer of assurance while we continue on. It’s a step toward reducing some of the stress and burnout, because it will unquestionably be easier to be in a treatment room while patients are getting chemotherapy, knowing they’re protected. It’s also been a very long year of being away from family and friends. Even the glimpse of some kind of normalcy arriving soon is exciting.”