TORONTO — The seventh wave of COVID\u002D19 in Ontario has peaked, the province’s chief medical officer of health said Friday.
Dr. Kieran Moore said in an interview that key indicators are peaking or already trending downward.“It’s always easier to look back and say where we were, but from our vantage point just today, it certainly has stabilized and we’re seeing a decrease in the overall number of people hospitalized, stabilization in ICU, which are typically late indicators, and at a provincial level the wastewater is on the decrease.
Looking ahead to the fall, a new wave of COVID-19 may not be as bad as Moore would have predicted a few months ago, he said, though colder weather pushing more activities indoors does increase risk. There is still a risk of reinfection with Omicron, Moore said, but people who have been vaccinated and infected are much better protected than people with an infection but no vaccination.
In the particularly vulnerable population of people aged 80 and older, about 61 per cent have received a fourth dose, Moore said.
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