“We have some of the strongest protocols in the country,” she said Thursday on MSNBC, “and yet, this virus has come raging back.”
You don’t say.
It was a surprise that host Chris Hayes didn’t cut her mic for contradicting The Science.
Michigan is currently averaging more COVID-19 cases and deaths per 100,000 people than any other state.
Gee but this sounds awfully familiar.
Ontario reports 4,362 new COVID-19 cases and 34 deaths; hospitalizations top 2,000
Ontario reported more than 4,300 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, as those hospitalized with the virus topped 2,000 for the first time in the pandemic.
Provincial health officials reported 4,362 new coronavirus cases and 34 additional deaths today, the highest single-day death count since 47 fatalities were recorded on Feb. 19.
Ontario’s new COVID-19 restrictions have science ‘absolutely upside-down,’ experts say
A leading epidemiologist is slamming some aspects of the Ontario government’s decision to double down on COVID-19 restrictions Friday, saying that Premier Doug Ford has the science behind his soon-to-be-enacted measures “absolutely upside-down.”
University of Toronto professor Dr. David Fisman expressed his frustration in an interview with Global News shortly after the premier’s press conference, where he announced more COVID-19 restrictions aimed at slowing down the record-setting spread of new cases in the province.
“The reason it’s so frustrating to hear stuff like this is he’s got the science absolutely upside-down,” he said.
New modeling suggests that the number of COVID-19 patients in Ontario’s intensive care wards will exceed 1,000 by the end of April in every single scenario, raising the spectre that the province may have to formally invoke its triage protocol to decide who gets a bed.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is prepared to deploy the Canadian Red Cross to help Ontario with their mobile vaccination teams and send aid to hospitals and long-term care homes; something the Premier says isn’t needed at the moment.
Canada’s procurement minister says she is in the midst of negotiating new vaccine contracts to nail down supplies of vaccine booster shots if they’re needed next year.
“We are actively planning for 2022,” Anita Anand said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press.
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is issuing an urgent call for unprecedented measures to address the state of crisis unfolding in several provinces. This includes marshalling national resources where needed, applying restrictive public health measures, and prioritizing national collaboration to save the most lives.
Growing outbreaks of the Brazilian COVID-19 variant in Canada prompted health officials to quietly cease enhanced screening measures for travellers arriving from the South American nation.
In a statement sent to the Sun, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said the extra screening didn’t seem necessary as the infectious and increasingly vaccine-resistant variant of concern (VOC) had already gained a significant foothold in this country.
Oh! Oh! South African variant cases rise amid reports several infected people have had a Covid vaccine dose
Trudeau’s made-in-Canada vaccine roll-out debacle may become the biggest scandal in Canadian history because lives are involved.
As of April 15, 22.7 per cent of all Americans were fully vaccinated (or received two doses) and another 38.6 per cent have received their first dose. That is roughly 251 million doses. By contrast, Canada has only provided 8.5 million doses, most of which will be reduced in effectiveness because of the Trudeau government’s decision to delay the second dose by 16 weeks, contrary to pharma-company instructions.
Ontario is setting up checkpoints at provincial land borders and enhancing police powers to enforce public health measures as part of a push to curb the spread of COVID-19, as new modelling warns of more than 15,000 new cases a day in the province.
The province is also extending its state of emergency and the current stay-at-home order by at least two weeks beyond its current end date of May 5. The government is shutting down non-essential construction at places such as shopping centres and office towers, and outlawing all outdoor activities such as golf, basketball, and playgrounds, as well as outdoor gatherings from outside one’s household, and limiting capacity at businesses such as grocery stores to 25 per cent. After previously loosening the rules, church services, as well as weddings and funerals, will now be capped at ten people indoors and outdoors.
🔥Ontario, Canada is now officially a police state🔥 pic.twitter.com/cBP8kCTG16
— 🍁🇨🇦CanAditude🇨🇦🍁 (@CanAditude) April 16, 2021
Canadian Constitution Foundation condemns new Ontario police powers as “police state”
TORONTO: The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) is today condemning the new powers that have been granted to Ontario police to enforce the province-wide stay at home order.
The new enforcement powers include giving the police the power to stop individuals and vehicles to ask for their name, address, and their purpose for being away from their residence. The powers comes into effect as of midnight on April 17, 2021.
The Ford government will lower the capacity limits allowed inside essential businesses and introduce new restrictions on inter-provincial travel in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, sources tell CTV News Toronto
They also say that the capacity limit at essential businesses will be lowered to 25 per cent and religious gatherings will be capped at 10 people indoors.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order on April 1 last year locking down the Sunshine State for 30 days amid a global panic about the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak. Sitting in his office exactly a year later, he told The Epoch Times that the lockdowns were a “huge mistake,” including in his own state.
“We wanted to mitigate the damage. Now, in hindsight, the 15 days to slow the spread and the 30—it didn’t work,” DeSantis said. “We shouldn’t have gone down that road.”
A columnist for the Washington Post is taking the media to task for ignoring Dr. Anthony Fauci’s ties to research that may have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.
Josh Rogin appeared on Megyn Kelly’s podcast Wednesday, where he countered the public love for Fauci since the start of the pandemic last year.
‘I often talk to scientists who say the same thing, who say, “Listen, we really want to speak out about this, but we can’t do it,” Rogin said on the podcast.
Ont. sets single-day record for new COVID-19 cases for second day in a row as number of ICU patients surpasses 700
For the second consecutive day, Ontario is reporting another single-day record for new cases of the novel coronavirus as the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care surpasses 700.
Ontario health officials logged 4,812 new infections today, topping the previous record of 4,736 set on Thursday.
The rolling seven-day average of new cases is now 4,292, up by more than 1,000 cases week-over-week.
Further COVID-19 restrictions likely for Ontario as 3rd wave worsens
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet are set to meet again Friday morning to consider further COVID-19 restrictions to combat a worsening third wave that is pushing the province’s health-care system to the breaking point.
The meeting comes ahead of a scheduled briefing from the province’s COVID-19 science advisory table that is expected include stark new forecasts for the weeks ahead.
A government source told CBC News revised modelling suggests Ontario could see up to 18,000 daily cases of COVID-19 by the end of May if current trends continue unabated, even with help from the province’s ongoing vaccination campaign.
They make furniture and sports uniforms, sell cars and build condos. All remain open as Ontario’s third wave worsens
A retail marketing firm. An Amazon warehouse. A maker of sports uniforms. A metal polishing firm. All of these workplaces remain open in Canada’s largest city – and all had more than 20 COVID-19 cases among their workers in recent weeks, according to data analysis by The Globe and Mail.
As Ontario sets new records for increases in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and people in ICUs – all driven by the spread of more infectious variants – some medical experts say further restrictions, in areas such as manufacturing and construction, are now warranted.
Basically they’re saying we screwed up, the 1st lockdown was too lenient resulting in a significant uptick in Covid infections so now we’re gonna double down and see if that helps.
Everyone’s version of essential workers is different when it comes to vaccinating the population. Some think health workers should be at the front of the line, others think teachers.
In Vancouver, sex workers are now getting priority treatment.
According to reports the mask mandate could be introduced using a Section 22 order under the Health Protection and Promotion Act which allows health officers to “require a person to take or to refrain from taking any action in respect of a communicable disease.”
