The past few days have been both shocking and horrifying for Canadians who are recording new highs of coronavirus cases to the dismay of health workers in Canada.
According to a medical health professional, Dr. Michael Warner. the restrictions were lifted too early and as a result, many facilities are completely full and there is also a dearth of vaccines to battle with. More younger people have been infected in this wave
So, we’re stuck, where we have cases out of control, hospitals completely full, not enough vaccine supply available and months of difficult public health measures ahead of us,” said Dr Michael Warner, the director of critical care at the Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto, in an interview with CNN.
Ontario seems to be facing the worst of the spread as the most populous Canadian province hit new high records for hospital admissions and ICU admissions. Warner maintains that the government should have listened to scientists instead of taking the risk of the spread.
Notice that our hospitals can no longer function normally, they are bursting at their seams, we’re setting up field hospitals and we’re separating critically ill patients from their families by helicoptering them across the province for care, our children’s hospitals are now admitting adults as patients. This has never happened in Ontario before it’s never happened in Canada before,” said Dr Adalsteinn Brown, Ontario’s science advisory co-chair.
Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier has now issued strict guidelines in hopes to slow the spread of the virus but warns that the next few weeks are going to be tough for citizens
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