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Feb 14 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
As the crushing pressure from the Omicron wave eases, Ontario hospitals must now confront a massive surgical backlog that has forced hundreds of thousands of people to wait for scheduled surgeries. torstar.co/1qjk50HU8KV
Surgical shutdowns during the pandemic — needed to free up hospital resources for COVID-19 patients — have created system-wide disruptions and a backlog of surgeries that experts say will take years to clear.
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Despite efforts to catch up in between pandemic waves, experts say the wait lists for many non-urgent surgeries and procedures have continued to swell.
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They warn the province must not only fund additional system capacity but rethink how it offers surgical care.

“This is a catastrophic problem the health-care system will face for at least the next five years,” said @acute_care_doc
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“Unless we redesign surgical care in the province, many, many Ontarians are not going to get their surgeries. There’s going to be a significant impact to people’s lives, but also to their mobility, fertility and quality of life."

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#BREAKING: RCMP seize haul of guns, ammo and make 11 arrests at Coutts, Alta. border protest

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They say the mark of insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting different results.

As Ontario reopens, we're being told to "learn to live with COVID-19." Dr. @NoahIvers writes. But that can't be without lessons learned. #InTheirOwnVoices

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If we try to “return to normal” we must apply solutions that we now know can prevent people dying due to poor air quality. Learning to live with the virus means making those investments.
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#Breaking: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeking to invoke never-used Emergencies Act to deal with convoy protesters, sources say. thestar.com/politics/feder…
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#BREAKING: Ontario moving up reopening dates, vaccine passports gone as of March 1. thestar.com/politics/provi…
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To #MakeItMakeSense, money expert @jessi_moorhouse breaks it down and give us tips. thestar.com/business/perso…
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“You may not think it applies to you right now but it will apply to future you"
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Thousands of Canadians who have switched jobs or careers during the pandemic, in what some economists are calling a “major sectoral realignment” in the labour force, especially in the food services sector. torstar.co/9zGi50HUbLv
Without wanting to take much time — if any — to go back to school to retrain, many of these workers are identifying their transferable skills and marketing them as assets to enter into new fields.
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