Humber River Hospital celebrated a big victory on Friday, announcing that its intensive care unit has zero COVID-19 patients for the first time since March.
In an interview with CTV News Toronto, Dr. Jamie Spiegelman, an internal medicine and critical care specialist at the hospital, described how staff managed to reach the milestone.
"For the first two to four weeks, sometime at the end of March and early April, we were fearful that we would get COVID from our patients." "We've been quite full for most of those months in terms of having both COVID patients and having non-COVID patients." Even though he considered it a big victory, Spiegelman said what was more important was the small victories. These include patients who survived COVID-19 and leave the hospital.
"The precautions that the government put on society and including physical distancing, staying at home, washing your hands, wearing a mask, have obviously worked to the point where phase one of the pandemic has really calmed down."
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