Breaking: Ontario is now seeing an estimated 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day
infections per day — the highest number of daily infections since the beginning of the pandemic — prompting experts to warn of increased hospitalizations in the coming weeks and calls for mandatory masking in essential businesses and schools.estimate that between 90,000 and 110,000 COVID infections are now happening every day in the province, with 30 out of Ontario’s 34 public health units showing exponential growth of new cases.
The record swell of cases will send a surge of people testing positive for COVID to hospitals, say experts, who warn the increase in hospitalizations combined with staffing shortages from workers off sick with the virus will again stress the health-care system. “We assumed a moderate change in behaviour, meaning a 30 per cent increase in contacts with half of all contacts made without masks if BA.2 became dominant,” Jüni said. “Now that BA.2 has become dominant, that’s not what we’re seeing. The behaviour change is much more dramatic and masks are being dropped like T-shirts on a beach.”
The last three weeks have also seen a steady rise in the number of reported outbreaks in vulnerable settings — one of the few metrics remaining in Ontario to gauge the pandemic. “What is always true, though, is that this virus disproportionately impacts vulnerable individuals and at-risk communities,” he said, speaking to the Star during a break from seeing patients on the COVID ward at Toronto General Hospital. “And it’s going to do that again this time around.”
“We are truly seeing a lot more cases of COVID these past few days. So much so that staffing is challenging once again,” Smith tweeted, adding that wearing masks, handwashing, distancing and getting vaccinated help curb the virus’s spread.
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