“We all need to stay calm,” Christine Eliot said at Queen’s Park on Tuesday. “We have the resources we need in Ontario to deal with both antiviral drugs, and we continue to vaccinate people.” Eliot said Ontario has the capacity “both in the medical operating rooms of our hospitals and in the intensive care unit” to deal with the sixth wave. Sewage data provided by the Ontario Scientific Table COVID-19 also confirms a provincial increase in COVID-19 infections. In almost every area of Ontario, the concentration of the disease in sewage has begun to increase. However, Eliot insisted, “Ontario is in a very good place and we will be able to get through.”
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Elliott, meanwhile, voiced growing concerns from health experts and opposition parties surrounding the Chief Medical Officer’s recent lack of public presence during the sixth wave. “We need leadership,” NDP Deputy Leader Dr. Sara Singh. On March 9, Dr. Kieran Moore made his last weekly update on COVID-19 – ending a long pandemic ritual. “That was Dr. Moore’s choice,” Eliot said Tuesday.
Crowdsourcing prevalence / risk #COVID by counting the number of infected people in your circle of acquaintances is not public health. Why does CMOH not speak to the public? It should share and interpret data to help people who want it, to make informed decisions. – Michael Warner (@drmwarner) April 4, 2022 At that time, COVID-19 hospitalizations were steadily declining across the province for weeks. But now, even as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise to 1,091 on Tuesday, Eliot said Moore has no plans to continue frequent interviews or public briefings. “If Dr. Moore feels the need at some point in the future to provide regular interviews or show up to discuss questions, he will do so. But, as he said in the past, we must learn to live with COVID. It has reached this point now. ”
