Cases are spiking, but is COVID-19 becoming less deadly in Canada? It’s complicated

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Demographics and better treatment explain a drop in the death rate. But experts say it’s not a reason for complacency

The majority of Ontario’s public health units that make up the Greater Toronto Area, Hamilton and Niagara enter stage 3 of the province’s economic recovery plan, joining 24 units that advanced the week prior. Stage 3 allowed indoor dining and bars, gyms and playgrounds to reopen while limits on gatherings increased to 100 people outside and 50 inside.Ontario announces a pause on any further reopening plans for four weeks amid rising case numbers.on social gatherings on Sept. 17.

The lag between catching the virus and dying also plays a part, she said. Today’s low death counts reflect last month’s success in suppressing the virus. Canada’s seven-day average of newly reported daily deaths fell to three on Sept. 10, the lowest since the pandemic took off. At the peak in early May, that figure was an average of 176 deaths a day.

There has been an uptick in cases in long-term care facilities since Sept. 1. But when seriously ill COVID-19 patients land in hospital, they’ll find physicians better able to save their lives, armed as they are now with experience treating the disease and with steroids that have been shown to cut the risk of death by a third in the sickest patients.

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Coronavirus is firmly ensconced in our biosphere after its successful export from China. It must be managed as a permanent infection possibility, kept away from the most vulnerable. However, society must carry on and not be reduced to a state of permanent, hysterical crisis.

Who the heck could sit in a line in a car for 6 hours.

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