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Ontario could be on track for a summer much different than 2020’s, depending on the success of the stay-at-home order combined with the vaccine rollouts, experts say.
The province is currently in the middle of a raging third wave, with health officials recording more than 3,000 new cases of the virus daily and hospital ICUs stretched beyond capacity.
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The current situation is grim, several infectious disease experts told the National Post and the next couple of months could be ‘brutal’, depending on public policy.
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