Earlier this week, the co-chair of the province’s COVID-19 health science table said if things don’t change, doctors will be forced to make some tough choices.
Now, it looks like they’re already preparing for that.
Michael Garron Hospital’s Dr. Michael Warner told CBC News that doctors are being asked to prepare to have to make choices between who gets care, and who doesn’t.
Canada will be experiencing a “temporary” delay in Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shipments due to the pharmaceutical giant’s expansion plans at its European manufacturing facility, Procurement Minister Anita Anand announced Friday.
While she did not specify how severe of a setback this will be to Canada’s short-term COVID-19 vaccination schedule, she said all nations who are receiving vaccines from this Pfizer facility will be receiving fewer doses.
#BREAKING: Ontario is reporting 2,998 new cases of COVID-19 today. A record 100 new deaths were also reported, but the province says 46 of the deaths occurred earlier in the pandemic and were included in today’s total as part of a data cleanup.
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNews) January 15, 2021
I was removed from the @OntarioPCParty caucus. It’s a regretful decision since many colleagues agree with me, incl @fordnation in large part. I don’t regret speaking out for millions of lives & livelihoods decimated by Public Health, I serve the public. 1/2 #onpoli. pic.twitter.com/2qwJvTWHym
— Roman Baber (@Roman_Baber) January 15, 2021
Canada on track for 10K COVID-19 cases a day, measures must be ‘further intensified’: feds
Canada is on track to see more than 10,000 coronavirus cases a day by February if, “we maintain the current number of people we contact each day,” according to new modelling from the federal government.
The feds on Friday released an updated picture of the current COVID-19 pandemic facing Canada, which included new modelling and estimates on the number of cases and deaths.
Toronto police say individuals won’t be ‘compelled to explain why they are out of their residence’ amid new stay-at-home order
Residents won’t be forced to explain why they are out of their homes despite a stay-at-home order from the province, Toronto police said as it laid out its enforcement plan, which will mainly focus on restaurants, businesses and large gatherings.
The Toronto Police Service released details of how they will be enforcing the order hours after it took effect. The stay-at-home order, which was announced on Tuesday, requires residents to only go out for essential purposes as the province tries to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Yeah, this isn’t creepy or dystopian at all. It’s just certified weirdo Tom Cruise purchasing robots to patrol his movie sets checking for Covid violations.
An advisory group overseeing the vaccine rollout said Thursday that provinces can likely wait as long as six weeks to give a second dose without impacting the vaccine’s effectiveness — double the timeline recommended.
After the province of Ontario enacted a second state of emergency, businesses deemed non-essential are now forced to cease curb-side pickup and close by 8 p.m. However, the new rules continue to make exceptions for big-box stores and large retailers.
On Saturday, January 9th, the left-wing Premier of Quebec, Francois Legault imposed new highly controversial Chinese coronavirus measures, essentially declaring martial law in the province. Three days after Legault’s announcement, Doug Ford, the premiere of the neighboring province of Ontario, vowed he would not allow his province to become a police state like Quebec.
When Joe Biden assumes office next week one of the things he’s promised on day one is to mandate 100 days of mask wearing. Because the authoritarian nature of of democrats knows no bounds, it now appears as if Biden will actually make us wear two masks at the same time because of science and stuff. No, seriously. Biden is now wearing two masks despite the fact that he’s already received the COVID-19 vaccination.
“The reports might indicate that common side effects from mRNA vaccines, such as fever and nausea, may have led to deaths in some frail patients,” chief physician Sigurd Hortemo in the Norwegian Medicines Agency noted.
2020 has been an incredibly challenging year for Canadians from all walks of life. CFIB predicts up to 225,000 Canadian businesses could close forever due to COVID-19 lockdowns. Family members have been lost, jobs remain scarce, and we find ourselves in the middle of a deeply unstable global political climate. Surprisingly, this Liberal government decided that now, during the second wave of a pandemic, is the right time increase taxes and make Canadians pay more.
The president of the Pasco Association of Educators (PAE) claims reopening schools for in-person learning is an example of “white supremacy,” and compares listening to concerned parents to following rioters breaking into the U.S. Capitol. He even says concern over student suicide is an example of “white privilege.”
Danuta is a new Canadian, and she thought this was a free country. That is, until she got a $1,200 ticket for having an authorized gathering in her house, at a time when nearly all private gatherings have been outlawed by the government in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Except Danuta wasn’t having an unauthorized gathering. Not even close. She was selling her furniture to someone she met online to make a little cash.
Ontario is reporting more than 3,300 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday as a stay-at-home order came into effect across the province to reduce transmission of the virus.
Public health officials reported 3,326 new infections and 62 additional deaths today.
Canada lags in vaccines because of Trudeau’s inaction
There are more than 400,000 Canadians vaccinated and that’s a good thing. The downside, though, is that we are only at about 1% of the population vaccinated.
According to the COVID-19 database, Our World in Data compiled by Oxford University, just over one in 100 Canadians is vaccinated against COVID-19.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks two decades ago, stunned and shaken Western allies scrambled to set up a terrorism intelligence exchange among themselves — a dedicated intelligence stream between the partners of the “Five Eyes” alliance to warn them of future attacks.
A former senior Canadian intelligence official now predicts that five-member intelligence alliance — between Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand — will follow a similar path in the wake of COVID-19 by pooling medical intelligence that could provide early warning of the next pandemic.
It’s wintertime in the Great White North. And while it might be cold, the silver lining is that if you like to skate, play hockey or go cross-country skiing, there’s an abundance of frozen H20 all across our great Dominion. Indeed, bodies of water ranging from small ponds to large lakes have already frozen over, so let the frigid frivolity begin, right?
