Ontario's health system increasingly overwhelmed by pandemic’s third wave
Ontario Conservative Premier Doug Ford announced a totally ineffectual stay-at-home order yesterday in response to growing warnings from doctors that the surging third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the province’s hospitals weeks, and possibly just days, away from collapse.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announcing State of Emergency (Source: CBC News)
Already there are more than 500 COVID patients in hospital intensive care units (ICUs). This is far higher than the number hospitals have warned would severely impact their ability to treat other critically ill patients. On Wednesday, 311 of the province’s 504 COVID-19 ICU patients were on ventilators.