TORONTO — As pediatric hospitals across Ontario deal with an unprecedented surge of very sick children, Premier Doug Ford asked residents to mask up on Sunday…
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore is set to make an announcement on Monday where he will recommend the public don masks regularly.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
Two government sources have told The Canadian Press Moore will not announce a mask mandate on Monday, but will just issue a plea to wear masks.“I’m going to follow Dr. Moore’s direction,” Ford said, a line he repeated several times when pressed on the issue.Article content“No one told me they wanted mandatory masking,” he said.
“I have confidence in the system and, yes, there will be bumps in the road and we’re working on solutions every single day.”On Saturday, Hospital for Sick Children CEO Dr. Ronald Cohn said he would welcome universal masking.SickKids hospital will begin cancelling non-urgent surgeries on Monday as it redeploys staff to deal with a flood of very sick children in the emergency department, the pediatric wards and in intensive care.
The province’s pediatric ICUs were operating over capacity last week. There were 122 children in intensive care across the province on Wednesday, 10 more than the maximum the system is equipped to handle. Ontario Health, the agency that oversees the province’s health-care system, recently directed the province’s general hospitals to accept children 14 and older who need critical care and to also accept children who no longer need to be in the ICU, but aren’t well enough yet to go home.Share this article in your social network
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