Ontario hospitals begin to brace for fourth wave of COVID-19
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TORONTO As COVID-19 case counts dwindle, experts warn that COVID-19 will linger even after the majority of adults are fully immunized but outbreaks could be far less devastating. The virus is going to be with us long-term, I think it s here to stay, said Dr. Anna Banerji, infectious disease expert with the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Experts point to the 1918 influenza pandemic as an example of a virus that, a century later, has not completely vanished. Some version of that virus is still hanging around, in different forms, it s mutated in different ways, said Dr. Fahad Razak, internist with St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
TORONTO Experts are reminding Canadians to get the first vaccine that is available to them as some, particularly those who received AstraZeneca as their first shot, turn down a Moderna jab in favour of its Pfizer-BioNTech counterpart. Dr. Dale Kalina, an infectious disease physician at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ont., told CTVNews.ca that Moderna and Pfizer are very similar vaccines and Canadians shouldnât be hesitant to get one over the other. I think there is always a push for people to be competitive about getting the best of a vaccine, or a car or whatever it may be and that s just something that s part of our society, Kalina said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.