BREAKING: Ontario reports its deadliest day of the #COVID19 pandemic so far: 89 deaths.
Also a single-day record of more than 3,500 new cases. #COVID19Ontario cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
Premier Doug Ford says 15,000 doses of vaccine were administered in Ontario yesterday. He's at another vaccine-related photo op today. #COVID19Ontario
12,251 doses were administered yesterday, according to the government's official #COVID19 vaccination page. (I'm told this count still does not include doses of the Moderna vaccine, administered by mobile teams in long-term care.) #COVID19Ontario covid-19.ontario.ca/covid-19-vacci…
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I have watched & listened to nearly every one of Premier Doug Ford's 200+ news conferences in the nine months since the pandemic began, and I believe he has never sounded more worried than he did this morning. #COVID19Ontario cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
Ford: "This is so, so serious. Matter of fact, this is the most serious situation we've ever been in, ever, ever, since the beginning of this pandemic." #COVID19Ontario
Ford: "We are in a crisis, that's how I can describe it. It is scary." #COVID19Ontario
THREAD: Ontario's second wave of #COVID19, in quotes and charts.
"We are flattening the curve." Premier Doug Ford, Oct. 6
(seven-day-average trend of new cases daily = 611) #COVID19Ontario
“We see the curve going down.” Premier Doug Ford, Oct. 28 (daily average of new cases = 886) #COVID19Ontario
“We’re seeing the numbers starting to go down, not to the level that any of us would like to see, but they are maintaining at a plateau.” Health Minister Christine Elliott, Nov. 2 (daily average of new cases = 919) #COVID19Ontario
I obtained a 4-page memo that went to all hospital CEOs today from the head of @OntarioHealthOH. telling them to prepare to activate surge capacity plans immediately. For hospitals in the lockdown & control zones, that means clearing up to 15% of beds for #COVID19 patients.
Caveat about today's count of new #COVID19 cases in Ontario, from the Ministry of Health: today's count covers a 27-hour period for most public health units, as the timing of the daily database extraction has shifted. #COVID19Ontario
BREAKING: 2,275 new cases of #COVID19 reported in Ontario today, including:
711 in Toronto
586 in Peel
185 in Windsor
154 in York
This pushes the 7-day average of daily new cases to 1,927.
Data: data.ontario.ca/dataset/status…#COVID19Ontario
Here's Health Minister Christine Elliott's caveat about today's record-high #COVID19 case count for Ontario
"This is not the right time to reduce public health measures in hard-hit regions: We can neither test adequately nor do contact tracing" says @ASPphysician#covid19ontario
When the system takes effect, most public health units are set to be in green or yellow, facing largely the same prevention measures as they've been under since June. #covidontario
Toronto, Peel, York, Ottawa & the Eastern Ontario Health Unit would be in orange, with LESS stringent restrictions than currently in place for "modified stage 2". Indoor drinking & dining permitted in bars & restaurants, but last call is moved up to 9pm, max 4 per table. #COVID19