Ontario’s Chaotic Third Wave: A Timeline
Rushed decisions, overstretched hospitals and a scramble for vaccines: how the Doug Ford government fumbled its way into the province’s third wave. Fatima Syed Updated
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On February 11, one of Ontario’s top doctors gave us a bleak picture of the province’s COVID future.
Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, and Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer, unveiled modelling data that indicated the province was heading to a third wave, spurred by new variants, and that cases would rise dramatically unless stay-at home orders continued.