Canada surpasses the US in the daily Covid cases for the first time

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For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Canada has gone through a grim stage, with more new cases of Covid-19 per capita than the US

There were about 22 a new memorycases per 100,000 people in the country in the last 7 days. Ontario is hit by the most difficult with hospitals that are under increasing stress, especially in Toronto, the country’s largest city.

“This is the worst moment of the pandemic so far,” Kevin Smith, executive director of the university’s health network, said in an interview Monday. “Our ICUs are full.”

Ontario ordered all operations except emergencies canceled in most of the province for the first time since March 2020. Cancer patients scheduled for cardiac and cerebral surgery are told to wait while intensive care units are filled with patients with Covid-19. The Toronto Children’s Hospital has opened an outpatient unit to treat adults.

Changing fortunes

New Covid-19 cases in Canada are growing rapidly, surpassing the US

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“When the Hospital for Sick Children provides intensive care to adults, you know you’re going through one of the worst times of the pandemic,” said Eileen de Villa, a Toronto medical officer. press conference on Monday. “The old Covid-19 virus is bulldozed by variant B117, the other two variants being present in Toronto as well.”

Toronto registered 1,296 new cases on Monday and was able to see 2,500 new cases of Covid-19 a day by the end of the month, at the current rate, health officials warned Monday.

Redistribution of staff

About 1,300 patients have been moved to hospitals across the province to deal with the attack on critical cases, Smith said. Hospitals are struggling to supply tocilizumab, a cancer drug that has improved survival rates for Covid, he said. And the UHN network may soon exceed its ability to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygen, or ECMO, to Covid patients, an artificial technology for the heart and lungs that can be used when a ventilator is insufficient.

Hospitals in northern Ontario will likely have to cancel scheduled operations soon, Smith said, so patients with Covid can be transferred from the south and north of the province. Next week, its staff is expected to be redeployed – ideally on a voluntary basis – to the areas most in need.

On Monday, Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford bowed to pressure to close schools for personal learning until data shows the outbreak is calming down, a decision that will add to the pressure on working parents at a time when people are already exhausted from the 13 months of the pandemic – related restrictions, along with a proper vaccine launch and begins.

Covid fatigue

Friction between besieged medical officials, desperate businesses and exhausted residents has increased across Canada. Last weekend, Quebec police used tear gas on a handful of protesters after hundreds took to the streets defying a nest at 8 p.m., with a hand that set fire to garbage and smashed windows, CBC News reported.

On Monday, British Columbia health officials said the number of critically ill patients had risen to a record high.

But nowhere has the connection between competing interests been more obvious than in Ontario, where Ford has struggled to contain the virus without ostracizing business leaders. Delays the provision of vaccines, the evolution of information about safety The dose of AstraZeneca and the more infectious nature of the new variants added to its challenges, leading to changes in tactics and messages. Complex color-coded blocking restrictions – which “gray” poses a greater threat than “red” – were accompanied by long lists of “phases” of the vaccine, detailed “steps” of reopening and frequent changes and modifications.