COVID-19 pandemic not over yet even as deaths decline, experts warn
COVID-19 study finds 80% of kids have been infectedRazak says if we don’t see a new wave during the peak COVID season, then experts may be more willing to declare the end of the pandemic in the spring.
But Colin Furness, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana school of public health, says the pandemic is still wreaking havoc, leading to excess death and a labour shortage that’s further stunting the already strained health-care system.
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