As health-care professionals in Ontario call in sick by the hundreds due to the Omicron variant, staff shortages are expected to affect the entire health-care system, delaying thousands of procedures a week, including non-essential surgeries.
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Staff and volunteers at some pop-up vaccination clinics in the city are calling out the aggressive behaviour and verbal assaults they have faced from residents seeking the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, despite not yet being eligible.
Posted: May 05, 2021 5:21 PM ET | Last Updated: May 5
Toronto emergency physician Dr. Lisa Salamon says some patients show up so seriously ill they need to be immediately admitted to intensive care, while others appear fine but actually have low oxygen levels.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)