Canada wins US for the first time in Daily Covid cases

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For the first time since the pandemic began, Canada has reached a bad milestone with more new Covid-19 cases per capita than the US.

There were about 22 new recordcases per 100,000 people in the country during the past 7 days. Ontario is hit most difficult with hospitals coming under increasing pressure, especially in Toronto, the country’s largest city.

“This is the worst moment of the pandemic so far,” University Health Network CEO Kevin Smith said in an interview Monday. “Our ICUs are full.”

Ontario ordered anything but emergency surgery canceled in most of the province, for the first time since March 2020. Patients scheduled for cancer, heart and brain surgery are being told to wait while the intensive care units are full of Covid-19 patients. The hospital for sick children in Toronto has treated an overflow unit for adults.

“When the hospital for sick children provides ICU care to adults, you know that you are experiencing one of the worst periods of the pandemic,” said Eileen de Villa, a medical officer in Toronto. news conference Monday. “The old Covid-19 virus is being pushed by the B117 variant, with the other two variants also in Toronto.”

Toronto recorded 1,296 new cases on Monday and by the end of the month could see 2,500 new Covid-19 cases per day, at the current rate. warned Monday.

Redeployment of staff

About 1,300 patients were transferred to hospitals across the province to deal with the onslaught of critical cases, Smith said. Hospitals are struggling to secure supplies of tocilizumab, a cancer drug that has improved Covid’s survival rate, he said. And the UHN network may soon exceed its ability to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygen, or ECMO, to Covid patients, an artificial heart and lung technology that can be used if a ventilator is inadequate.

Hospitals in northern Ontario are likely to have to cancel scheduled surgeries soon, Smith said, allowing Covid patients to be transferred from the south to the north of the province. Within the next week, he expects his staff – ideally on a voluntary basis – to be redeployed to areas of greatest need.

Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford on Monday bowed to pressure to close schools for personal learning until data showed the outbreak was easing, a decision that would add to the pressure on working parents at a time when people are already exhausted the 13 months of pandemic. -related restrictions, together with an implementation of vaccination against vaccines.

Covid Fatigue

Friction between beleagured health officials, desperate businesses and exhausted residents has increased in Canada. This past weekend, police in Quebec used tear gas on a handful of protesters after hundreds braved the street in defiance of an evening clock at 8pm, with a handful burning garbage and smashing windows, CBC News report.

On Monday, health officials in British Columbia said the number of patients in critical care had risen to a record high.

But the tug-of-war between competing interests was nowhere clearer than in Ontario, where Ford struggled to curb the virus without eradicating business leaders. Delay vaccine safety, evolving information on the safety of the The dose of AstraZeneca and the more contagious nature of new variants have contributed to its challenges, leading to shifting tactics and messages. Complex color-coded closure constraints – that is, “gray” represents a higher threat than “red” – are accompanied by long lists of “phases” of vaccines, detailed reopening of “stages” and frequent changes and modifications.