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As COVID-19 cases hit record highs in Ontario, doctors are preparing to make life and death decisions about who will get critical care.
It is a “worst case scenario” that health officials in Ontario have been preparing for, but have avoided through earlier waves of the pandemic.
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This time, with the number of COVID patients in ICU beds at a record high of 542 on Friday morning and rapidly rising, there is growing concern that doctors at some hospitals will be forced to make decisions about who will get limited critical care resources, even with the majority of the most vulnerable frail elderly now vaccinated.