Dr. Kashif Pirzada says he’s never seen anything like the crisis facing Ontario pediatric hospitals right now. The Toronto emergency room physician is calling on the province to bring back mask mandates until the wave of respiratory viruses impacting children subsides.
Despite increasingly urgent calls from doctors for a renewed mask mandate in Ontario, the province is leaving masking up to individuals at a time when, experts say, governments are wary of a backlash over public health restrictions.