Toronto hospital's ICU has no COVID-19 patients for first time in months

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."

Yes!

What will obese nurses do for money now. I doubt they can build anything

talk2spirit God's Blessing Upon you all and your families 🙏🏽

RachEttinger Good! Thanks for your efforts. All the best!

mmeans40 Praise God. Please let that rain in our cities all over the world.

That is great news for the people and hospital staff of toronto stay safe.

Way2go Frontline workers , now all Toronto has are The Sick Leaf Fans, hahaha, PoorLeaf fans, the Lefs ARE The Canucks of THE East, and The Canucks Are The Leafs of The West 🤣😅😂😜😉

Hooray!!! Way to go!! 🙌

Wonderful news!

Were the hospitals that busy in the first place?

Woot woot!!🎉

SavarraCanada

YAY!!! This is real NEWS! 🌀🦋💖

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Congratulations - this is amazing news -

Well done!

Wow finally good reporting from FAKE NEWS CTV..

Congratulations TO 🇨🇦 Everyone is to be congratulated, Medical Professionals, Political Leaders, and Citizens who followed simple rules.

Well done staff..

WTG Toronto 👍

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Wonderful! 💕

Great! Hope people are not complacent. I still don’t understand why people states high temp can slow down the pandemic. From daily stats, I see high infected rate in Brazil, India, etc. I believe the normal temp there can be higher than what we have in Ontario now.

Nice👍 Thanks for all the hard work!! Now we as a public must pay you guys back by keeping clean and following the rules.

Very well done Canada!! Doing far far better than the other North American countries, wishing you more from now til the end of this pandemic! From 🇬🇧

That must be a huge weight lifted off the staff there. I hope the relief lasts for a long time.

My kid still can’t go to the playground tho... 🤮

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That’s good news 👏🏻👏🏻

bolero2010 So did Canada KNOW in advance about the pandemic and didn't tell the US? Why did they respond faster than realdonaldtrump foxnews cenkuygur msnbc cnn TuckerCarlson

Wow that's awesome. Ty for everything you do. Hugs xoxo

Well done!!!

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 They dserve medals.

WOW, with Canadian seniors deaths at twice the rate from around the world, what happened to them? In fact 85% of all deaths in Canada were seniors. AND NOBODY CARES?

So sad

Congratulations

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You guys are just amazing love you all for your hard work you have done thru kovid 19

Welcome to the Club. 🤗

Good job!

Good news.

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Brilliant!

Awesome !!

YAy 👏👏👏👏 good job!

That is awesome news,

Praise The Lord Jesus Christ 🙏

That's awesome Toronto!💕

Way to go team!

Thank you so much

So grateful for their service and so glad they don’t have to work those long hours to keep us safe. Cannot thank them enough.

4UWell 🙏🏽

You guys you're the f****** best LMAO JohnTory cityoftoronto fordnation why are there bylaws for masks? Why are businesses not FULLY OPEN ?

You now know what it’s like to be a hero ! Congrats 👍👍

Yes, this is awesome news.

Sooooo did they ever stop making tiktok videos?

Thank you all for your service. That's awesome news!!

Congratulations ❤🇨🇦

AMAZING! Thank you, hospital workers... and to all our fellow Canadians who did the difficult task of staying home to take care of each other. COVID19Ontario

Awesome ♥️

Thank You 🙏

Thank You our warriors, the more we thank the less it is, you guys are just awesome. Thanks again, God Bless Canada.

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That's awesome!!

Trump:

A wonderful testament to your dedication.

Okay.

Why is the province still closed then ?

Good. Then lets not be stupid and cause a second wave.

China tv..are they now allowing visitors..or are we still under communist regime orders..

4UWell woohoooo......

A historic moment! We are thankful that you were there for us when we needed you the most. You’re our knights in blue armour!

Then why are we canada not fully open for Canadians yet?

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