Health Minister Christine Elliott says Ontario is waiting for NACI recommendations on "mixing" vaccines. She says it is likely Ontario will have to mix due to fewer doses of AstraZeneca, they have asked NACI about it and are watching the UK closely for its results on mixing.
On current stay at home order Health Minister Elliott says the numbers have to go down further (doesn't say by how much) before it is lifted. #onpoli
Minister Elliott says there must be a "significant drop" in Covid cases before ending the stay at home order, which is due to expire May 20th. She says advisors are encouraging the government to "stay the course." #onpoli
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NEW: People are now dying of #covid19 at home. This hasn't been seen before according to Ontario's coroner Dr Huyer at today's medical briefing. They are staying at home sick and getting more seriously ill faster until it's too late #onpoli
"Many of these people were found deceased." Dr. Huyer says. He adds the people who have died at home didn't need to go to hospital based on symptoms, they were stable but deteriorated very quickly. #covid19
I have to admit, this just broke me. These are people dying of #covid19 at home in their 30's. Imagine their family members that found them.
Premier Ford. "We got it wrong, we made a mistake...I'm sorry and I sincerely apologize." #onpoli
Premier Ford officially says they are working on a paid sick day program. (which they have resisted for a year) #onpoli
Premier's feed back on. They go straight to questions. He says they are going to fix the paid sick day "gap." Doesn't say if it will be temporary of offer details. @onpoli
"we were advised we needed to limit mobility...that's why the rules were made." Health Minister Christine Elliott tries to offer justification for controversial announcement re playgrounds and police it made Friday that it had to walk back less than 24 hours later.
"we recognize that was not the way it was interpreted by the public," says the Health Minister
"Why close playgrounds? Health Minister is asked. "we were looking at measures where people gather. But we then realized...we had to counterbalance the need for children to get out, that's why we took that part out." she answers.
The Long Term Care Commission has just released the transcript of it's interview with Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams. It took place on Feb 22nd from 10 AM to 2:30 PM. 232 pages. Speed reading.
The LTC commission notes the difficulty it had getting info for this meeting w Dr Williams, they had to go to an arbitrator to get his notes unredacted and only received 217k documents on Friday, calling it a "gargantuan task" to read them
NEW: Retired General Rick Hillier begins vaccine update, says vaccinating 16-18K a day, hopes to have all long term care residents finished with second dose next week.
In phase two, which begins 1st week of March, pharmacies will begin distributing vaccines.
Retired General Hillier says vaccination plan is inclusive of hospitals, family doctors and pharmacies. (remember each public health unit is doing a their own plan unique to own region)
This right here is the chart the government will use to prove its case for lockdowns. It indicates lockdowns worked in France and Australia #covid19
This graph makes the argument that the sooner lockdowns are put in place the lower the future #covid19 case counts will be
How long should lockdowns be? "we don't believe anything less than 4 weeks is effective, longer is more effective." Dr. Brown as he releases Ontario's modelling numbers #covid19