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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.
Worst case scenario critical care triage being considered as COVID cases spike in Ontario
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TORONTO An Ontario emergency-room physician is calling on the province to offer second-dose protection to front-line health-care workers sooner rather than later as cases of the highly-contagious COVID-19 variants climb. “Is that enough, to say one dose is good enough?” Dr. Laura Shoots told CTV News Toronto. “I think it just highlights how little the province cares about our healthcare workers and their safety.” Shoots highlights the case of a colleague, a fellow emergency room doctor who caught the virus from a patient three weeks after he received his first dose of the vaccine. Although the first dose of the vaccine has been demonstrated to offer significant protection, there is still some risk of contracting COVID-19.