The head of critical care at Micahel Garron Hospital, Dr. Michael Warner, has added his voice to the medical opposition to any early relaxation of lockdown rules. Again, projections of 5,000 or more new cases per day of the virus are being heard. It’s similar to the fears discussed at New Year’s. In the event, Ontario began to flatten the second wave of C-19 in the middle of the month. Daily new cases rose to somewhat more than 3,000 and then began to decline.
Government determined
But the government seems determined. While Toronto apparently remains locked down in stay-at-home mode until February 22, a maze of timed re-openings will be permitted starting Tuesday. Readers will recall the post yesterday in which the government’s sickness-modeling expert Dr. Adalsteinn Brown did not contradict a reporter who asked if the doctor foresaw “a disaster.”
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