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.