Ontario reports 13 net new COVID-19 deaths as epidemiologists warn province is now in sixth wave of pandemic
The Ministry of Health said 12 of the deaths reported Wednesday occurred in the past 30 days and one occurred prior to that period.There have been 71 deaths reported in the past week and 12,427 confirmed since the pandemic began in March 2020.790 on TuesdayOf those, 165 patients are in intensive care, unchanged from yesterday and 94 are breathing with a ventilator, up 10 from yesterday., driven largely by the more transmissible BA.2 Omicron subvariant.
“I don’t think it could have been prevented, I think we were going to have a spring wave regardless of what we were doing, but the extent to which this impacts us here in Ontario is largely dependent on what we do and how we are proactive and reactive to it as well,” he told CP24.
The value of prior infection in developing immunity from COVID-19, especially Omicron and BA.2 is the subject of significant debate among researchers, with some saying it can effectively stave off re-infection for months and others saying it is of little or unknown value.last month found that prior infection prevented reinfection in 90 per cent of cases during the Alpha and Delta variant periods, but only 56 per cent during Omicron.