When hospitals become home: Children put up in wards when both parents have COVID The unusual scenario underscores how spread within households amid stay-at-home orders is playing a key role in fuelling the pandemic. With a heavy impact on certain families
Author of the article: Tom Blackwell
Publishing date: May 04, 2021 • 8 hours ago • 3 minute read • A spokesperson from the Toronto Children’s Aid Society is urging parents to have a list of alternative caregivers for their children in case both parents end up in hospital for treatment for COVID-19. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post
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As COVID-19 continues to surge across Canada, the virus has left some children in a surprising and “really difficult” predicament.
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When hospitals become home: Children put up in wards when both parents have COVID
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Canada’s COVID face is changing for reasons that still aren’t entirely clear.
COVID wards are filling with young and middle-aged adults. Nearly as many under-50s died from COVID-19 in Ontario intensive care units in the first 48 days of this now cresting third wave as in the entire September to February wave. Harrowing numbers of pregnant women are landing in intensive care. By mid-April, half of those in Mount Sinai Hospital’s ICU were pregnant or had recently given birth. At the Toronto General Hospital on Wednesday, a record 28 people were connected to artificial lungs “and still younger than the first two waves,” reported Dr. Eddy Fan, medical director of the Extracorporeal Life Support Program at Toronto’s University Health Network. Other doctors are reporting multiple people born in the 1990s.
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