In a memo obtained by CBC News, Ontario Health CEO Matthew Anderson said that elective surgeries have to be stopped to make room in ICUs for potential coronavirus patients.
Potential.
“China eats weird animals disease”
What Do Mandatory Vaccination and Forced Sterilization have in Common?
What would you say if I told you a distraught woman recently came into my counseling office? She explained that her boss threatened that, if she didn’t have sex with him, she would be fired. He’d already banned her from all firm social activities and said that he’d do what he could to destroy her personal life too. After he was done with her, he said, she wouldn’t be able to leave the house. He would take away everything that meant anything to her.
Canada should check its COVID-19 superiority complex: We are the laggards now, not the U.S.
If the Germans weren’t so busy with their own problems, I’d ask them to come up with a word for that feeling you get when the screw-up cousin you’ve always looked down on suddenly lands a great job, a house and a runway-model spouse while you’re left eating ravioli out of a can in a basement apartment. It’s some combination of jealousy, disorientation and sheepishness. How did the smug high ground collapse into Chef Boyardee?
GRANT: Stop blaming people for the behaviour of a virus
We’re a year into this mess, and despite all we have gone through, we are still wrongly apportioning blame. Some of the loudest voices in the media are finding scapegoats for the “third wave.”
Some of the criticism is ridiculous: Berating BC health officer Bonnie Henry’s “lax” approach to control when the rate of infection in BC is 1000-2000 cases per 100,000 population, which is less than it is in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta.
BONOKOSKI: Experts question Trudeau’s strung-out vaccine strategy
Evidence is mounting fast that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is playing Crazy 8s with a euchre deck and using millions of Canadians as guinea pigs by moving the second COVID-19 vaccine back by four months.
The primary manufacturers of the vaccines — Pfizer and Moderna — say 21-to-28-days is the maximum wait, not a full third of a year.
Ontario reports 4,227 new Covid cases … and no surgery for you!
Ontario reports highest number of new COVID-19 cases in three months
Ontario is reporting its highest number of new cases of COVID-19 in three months as record hospitalization numbers continue to place further strain on the healthcare system.
The Ministry of Health says that there were 4,227 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Thursday, along with another 18 deaths.
It is the highest number of new cases in any 24-hour period since 4,249 were reported back on January 8.
Haven’t we been in a lockdown since Christmas?
Ontario orders hospitals to halt non-emergency surgeries as COVID-19 patients fill ICUs
The Ontario government’s health agency is telling hospitals across most of the province to stop performing all but emergency and life-saving surgeries because of the growing caseload of COVID-19 patients, CBC News has learned.
A memo was sent to hospitals Thursday night telling them to postpone their non-emergency surgeries, effective Monday, everywhere but in northern Ontario.
“Given increasing case counts and widespread community transmission across many parts of the province, we are facing mounting and extreme pressure on our critical care capacity,” says Ontario Health CEO Matthew Anderson in the memo, obtained by CBC News.
Doug Ford’s Government Violates Its Own LockDown Restrictions…Again
On April 2, Ontario Premier Doug Ford implemented strict Covid19 lockdown restrictions in Ontario, now referred to colloquially as a shutdown. This government-imposed lockdown has occurred despite increased concerns from some health officials around the world as to the effectiveness of heavy restrictions and inconclusive data that may suggest lockdowns exacerbate the problem and help Covid19 spread. This while simultaneously causing catastrophic economic damage to Ontario and Canada. Ontario is one-third of Canada’s entire economic output.
EXCLUSIVE – Former Pfizer VP: ‘Your government is lying to you in a way that could lead to your death.’
‘Look out the window, and think, “why is my government lying to me about something so fundamental?” Because, I think the answer is, they are going to kill you using this method. They’re going to kill you and your family.’
Canada Is One of the Only Countries Fighting Three COVID Variants at Once
If politicians listened to science, the situation could have been avoided. Now, Canada is losing its latest COVID-19 battle.
NY To Give Illegal Immigrants COVID Checks Of Up To $15,600, Republicans Hit Back: ‘In New York, It Pays To Break The Law’
New York will offer “one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants who lost work during the pandemic,” according to reports.
h/t Marvin
Canada on track to surpass U.S. in number of COVID cases relative to population
The U.S. has fully vaccinated 19% of its population, compared to 1.9% of the population in Canada
In a reversal of earlier pandemic trends, Canada is on the verge of matching — perhaps surpassing — the United States in the number of COVID-19 cases relative to its population.
Updated data compiled from the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dataset shows that the United States sits at roughly 196 COVID-19 cases per one million people, and Canada, as of Tuesday, was at 180 cases per one million people.
FUREY: Lockdowns cause immense harm — why keep doing them?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said a lot of things on Wednesday, as he announced a crushing lockdown stricter than the previous ones. But what he didn’t say much about is the harm that’ll inevitably follow from those measures.
As much as the officials would like to ignore them, those harms are always there looming in the shadows, and they keep mounting.
Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Site In Colorado Shut Down After 11 Develop Adverse Reactions During On-site Observation Period
A mass vaccination site at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Colorado was shut down after several adverse reactions to the Johnson & Johnson CCP virus vaccine, said Centura Health, which is managing the site.
More than 600 people who had appointments were turned away from the “Vaccines for All” event in Commerce City after 11 people who were administered the shot developed adverse reactions during the on-site observation period, Kevin Massey, a spokesperson for Centura Health, told local news outlets.
Ontario reports 3,295 new Covid cases … China, UK, Brazil & South Africa. Canada can’t even get its own mutant virus!
Ontario reports 3,295 new COVID-19 cases; ICU occupancy sets new record high
Ontario reported 3,295 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, along with 19 more deaths, as hospital ICU admissions hit a new record high.
Ontario reported 3,215 new cases on Wednesday, 3,065 on Tuesday and 2,938 on Monday.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases is now 3,093, up from 2,988 yesterday.
Why Canada is losing the race between vaccines and variants as the 3rd wave worsens
Much of Canada is in the grips of a worsening third wave as COVID-19 vaccinations slowly ramp up, and experts say the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants is throwing gasoline on an already-raging fire.
“We have a lot of virus moving around the country and escalating very, very quickly,” said Jason Kindrachuk, an assistant professor of viral pathogenesis at the University of Manitoba and Canada Research Chair of emerging viruses.
“Vaccinations are certainly starting to pick up, but we’re nowhere near where we need to be to get this thing under control.”
I can’t help but wonder if this lockdown is going to accomplish anything at all.