Emergency departments will almost certainly continue to face difficulties this fall said an emergency physician speaking on a panel.
“A straight-up prediction is that there’s a 99 per cent chance that the emergency departments in Ontario will be worse. I want to say 100 per cent, but I want to give myself a little bit of hope,” said Dr. Andrew Petrosoniak, an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
Petrosoniak said he usually sees only a handful of patients with COVID on a shift. He’s concerned about patients who have come to an emergency room because they need care and have no family doctor or other option for treatment. “We are seeing patients being admitted to the emergency department because they have nowhere else to go.”
There is also low coverage in the school-based immunization programs because of disruptions in the education system. Before the pandemic, 60 to 80 per cent of children in Grade 7 were receiving vaccinations, said Freeman. Meanwhile, Ontario is finally seeing a decline in the seventh wave of COVID, said infectious diseases specialist Dr. Zain Chagla, another member of the panel. The unexpected wave this summer has introduced more immunity in the population that was not predicted in previous modelling, he said.
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