Omicron appears to be ‘plateauing’ in Toronto. Loosening restrictions will likely change that, health experts warn

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Omicron appears to be ‘plateauing’ in Toronto. Loosening restrictions will likely change that, health experts warn.

, with key indicators showing the Omicron wave flat or dropping as the province prepares to loosen restrictions that have kept many people home.such as the number of institutional outbreaks and virus levels in wastewater show a local “plateauing” of the infectious Omicron variant.

Dr. Anna Banerji, a Toronto infectious diseases expert, said that two years into the pandemic, with the threat of new variants looming, there is no obvious correct choice between sticking with restrictions and gradually loosening them. That echoes Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario’s public health chief, who on Thursday told reporters that “We have to understand that we have to learn to live with this virus,” when eliminating it entirely no longer seems possible.

 

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Let’s hide under our beds for another two years, that sounds like the sensible course of action.

One of the Premiers who wrote the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is suing the PM. I dare you to write a story on that.

Title contains the word 'experts'. The new rule is that it's automatically assumed to be bullshit.

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