The Ministry of Health reports 712 new cases of C-19 across the province Friday. That number remains within the lower end of the recent range of second-wave cases in Ontario. An inevitable rise in deaths is also seen in this report. Nine people have died of whom five were elderly residents of care homes. It’s a well-known (and obvious) outcome of C-19 among the young that the old are soon fatally infected.
“We have heard about the overrepresentation of people in their 20s with this infection in June, July, August and even now but the issue is that it doesn’t stay within a particular geographic location and it doesn’t stay in a particular age cohort and as we are watching the virus move into older and older age groups we are also seeing that corresponding rise in hospitalizations and sadly deaths,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch told CP24 on Friday morning. “We really need to ensure that we have very good community control of this virus because we know that it is so contagious and we don’t live in hermetically sealed bags, so it is hard to keep this restricted to a particular age group or a particular geographic location.”
