COVID-19 Ontario: Toronto's top doctor on the three-year anniversary of first case.
At the time then Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams told reporters at a hastily-called press conference at Queen’s Park that the “risk to Ontarians is still low and things are managed and well-controlled.”
But within weeks the virus had started to spread widely, prompting the Ontario government to declare aBusinesses were soon shuttered, people were urged to work from home and daily media briefings with Toronto Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa and Mayor John Tory soon became appointment viewing.
CP24.com spoke with de Villa on the three-year anniversary of Ontario’s - and Canada’s - first COVID-19 case, about those early days of the pandemic, and when she knew that we were in for the long haul.So back in early 2020 I think a lot of people felt like we just had to hunker down for a few months and this would go away. But given your background in infectious diseases did you know then that we were in fact going to have to find a way to live with this in the long term.
Dr. Eileen de Villa, second left, Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto, sits alongside Dr. Andy Smith, left, President and CEO of Sunnybrook Health Sciences, as they attend a news conference in Toronto on Saturday, January 25, 2020, as officials announce that Canada's first presumptive positive case of the Coronavirus is being treated at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, after arriving on a flight from China.
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