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Canada’s COVID face is changing for reasons that still aren’t entirely clear.
COVID wards are filling with young and middle-aged adults. Nearly as many under-50s died from COVID-19 in Ontario intensive care units in the first 48 days of this now cresting third wave as in the entire September to February wave. Harrowing numbers of pregnant women are landing in intensive care. By mid-April, half of those in Mount Sinai Hospital’s ICU were pregnant or had recently given birth.
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Toronto Police expanding mobile crisis teams
by Faiza Amin and Jessica Bruno
Posted Apr 28, 2021 6:46 pm EDT
A Toronto police program that pairs officers with mental health nurses is expanding.
At a time some are questioning whether police should be the ones responding to mental health calls, changes are in the works for the mobile crisis intervention unit.
“The expansion is for the community and for the mental health community,” said Deputy Chief Peter Yuen, of the Toronto Police Service.
Last year, the mobile crisis intervention teams (MCIT) responded to 7,500 of the about 40,000 annual person-in-crisis calls. This year, the partnership between police and local hospitals will be available for more hours every day.
Low oxygen supplies due to COVID-19 force Michael Garron Hospital to transfer some patients
Faced with dwindling supplies of oxygen due to high numbers of COVID-19 patients, Michael Garron Hospital was forced to cancel surgeries and transfer patients to other hospitals.
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Posted: Apr 29, 2021 4:23 PM ET | Last Updated: April 30
Ten patients were recently transferred from Michael Garron Hospital after its oxygen supply began to run low due to a high volume of COVID-19 patients. (Michael Wilson/CBC)
Some patients at an east-end Toronto hospital were transferred elsewhere on Thursday as the facility deals with low oxygen supplies due to the third wave of the pandemic.