TORONTO — Ontario’s top doctor will recommend the public begin masking on Monday in an effort to help overwhelmed children’s hospitals, two government sources…
There will be no mask mandate, just a general recommendation to wear masks, especially in crowded situations, said the sources, who are speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the process publicly.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.
The hospital announced Friday it would be ramping down surgeries to redeploy staff to those areas, Cohn added. “I want to reassure you that all these children continue to get the safe and high quality care that they’ve always been receiving, and for now I can tell you that everybody still gets that kind of care,” he said.
The viruses that are bringing children to SickKids have changed over the past month, Cohn said. Rhinovirus and enterovirus infections were driving admissions a few weeks back, but he said the current surge is fuelled by influenza and respiratory syncytial virus cases. The Hamilton Health Sciences’ McMaster Children’s Hospital said Friday their pediatric in-patient unit is operating at over 140 per cent.Article content
Figures released earlier this week showed the province’s pediatric intensive care units were operating over capacity. There were 122 children in pediatric ICUs on Wednesday, though the system is only set up to handle 112. Just five of those children had COVID-19.
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