That figure will continue to climb for weeks, even as some evidence indicates weOne researcher is predicting that by the spring this could end up being Ontario’s deadliest stretch of the pandemic.
But the current situation, wrought by Omicron’s heightened infectiousness, could have been avoided, Sinha said, adding that the story of this wave of the pandemic in Ontario is one of “missed opportunities” for not rolling out booster shots more quickly to those at the highest risk. “We may have talked ourselves into not doing everything that we could to actually better support our population overall, but in particular, our oldest citizens.”
“Then we have the situation in December where older people were competing with younger people , and we really squandered a lot of valuable time,” he said. “At the individual patient level it’s true that Omicron may result in milder illness and we now have accumulating evidence to suggest that,” he said. “But at the macro level — at the system level and at the societal level — Omicron is anything but mild.”
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