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Ontario: Rising COVID hospitalizations will put healthcare system under strain once again ‘even without Omicron,’ new modelling warns

Ontario will see a rise in ICU admissions related to COVID-19 that will once again put its hospitals under significant strain even without taking into account the spread of a new variant that it likely to “drive cases above current projections,” new modelling suggests.

Ontario’s Science Advisory Table has released updated projections which attempt to lay out the possible scenarios the province is facing amid a worsening fourth wave of the pandemic that has already seen case counts double over the span of a month.

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