Toronto's top doctor says level of COVID-19 infection may have plateaued but warns against lifting restrictions too soon

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Toronto’s top doctor says that the city is now seeing some “initial indicators” that the level of COVID-19 infection may have plateaued locally but she is warning against lifting public health restrictions “too quickly,” especially with students expected to head back to their classrooms tomorrow.

Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa made the comment during a briefing at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday morning.

“Ensuring the success of in-person learning for the rest of the school year relies on seeing solid evidence of an improving COVID-19 situation overall before introducing changes that are likely to lead to more in-person interaction,” she said. “We've learned from our own experiences and from the experiences of other jurisdictions that going too quickly risks the progress we have made and in some cases has forced us to go back to more restrictions.

However on Monday Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore told an Ottawa radio station that he was “starting to have much more hope” about the situation the province is facing. But she said that “increasing opportunities for people to interact with each other should be done with caution, especially as schools are just reopening.”

“The first step of the reopening is happening right now. Once we survive the issue with the snow our kids will be back to school and that's the first step and we just need to really then make sure that we don't ahead of ourselves,” he said. “What we need to have now is just a decrease in the in the hospital occupancy numbers so that that our health care system is just able to deal with. It's very challenging right now.

 

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Ivermectin works, WE KNOW IT!!!

Omicron is the new variant and the one here to stay, let it be re-open the country, we re only idiots in this world locked down. The world is open for business and we re sitting here holding on to what ? This experiment of how u control the people has gone way too far

This lady doesn’t know what she is talking about. Plateaued? We are not even testing anymore.

Lmfao as if Doug cares about lifting restrictions. He’s ready to screw us over yet again

Lmao so we gonna be on lockdown forever since this shit isn’t going anywhere ? Doesn’t matter how the lockdown lasts as the Covid exists

Set us Free!

fordnation doesn’t seem to care. Hospitalizations are high so let’s open things up 🙄

How does she know with a limited testing capacity?

Monica Lewinski taught her everything she knows .

That's my girl, Scarf lady. Looking good in 2022

Too soon🤣 over 2 years and it's too soon for her, she doesn't want to give up on all the air time and nice paycheck she's been getting

So Whats her long term.plan...waiting for 0 case to lift restrictions..this will never happen...

OMICRONE was and is a strong version of the FLUE.....Most of the people that I know had it and they are well and alive....STOP SHUT downs and let us live our lives!

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