Dr. Brown,Co-Chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and Dr. David Williams, Chief Medical Officer of Health, spoke this afternoon about COVID-19 modeling.
Both Dr. Williams and Dr. Brown say the numbers right now are concerning.
Dr. Brown says numbers are still rising but the biggest problem is we may be too tired to notice. Notice hospitals are bursting at capacity, and that children hospitals now admitting adults.
He urges everyone to be vaccinated as the sooner we get people vaccinated the sooner we can start reopening things.
He adds the the province needs to be laser focused on vaccine rollout and vaccine vulnerable people first, keep workplaces safe with only essential workplaces open and support people so they don’t have to make the choice of staying home or paying the bills and getting people sick.
Dr. Brown says that ICU occupancy is compromising all patients and vaccines are not reaching high-risk people fast enough
There has been substantial growth in most regions in Ontario in just 2 weeks, and testing positivity and reproduction rates are increasing.
Last 2 weeks have seen 67% in hospitalizations and 51 % growth in ICU occupancy
If public health orders had not been put into place there could have been up to 30 thousand cases per day in the province.
Doctor Brown is recommending a 6 week stay at home order with vaccines at 100 thousand a day is the only way to flatten the curve.
Premier Doug Ford will be speaking today at 2:30 PM.
