While not as crowded with shoppers as it might normally be, the Eaton Centre was open for business with people lining up outside a few stores on March 10, 2021.Faster-spreading and potentially deadlier variants of the coronavirus are now responsible for around 40 per cent of new cases in Ontario, a figure that experts say should be a warning to the entire country about the threat of a third wave that could outpace vaccinations.
“We now have two pandemics,” said Peter Juni, director of the science table and a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Toronto. “The traditional pandemic, which is under control, and the new pandemic, which is not under control.” In the long run, widespread vaccination will tame the pandemic, even if vaccines have reduced effectiveness against some variants of the coronavirus, said Andrew McArthur, a researcher whose lab at Hamilton’s McMaster University is handling a portion of Ontario’s viral sequencing load.“Between now and then is extremely dangerous,” Dr. McArthur said. “I have short-term fears and long-term optimism.
Ontario’s total, which is closer to real time, includes all cases that have been picked up by a screening tool that looks for a mutation common to B.1.1.7 and to B.1.351 and P.1, the variants first confirmed in South Africa and Brazil, respectively.shows 921 confirmed cases of B.1.1.7, 39 of B.1.351 and 17 of P.1, but 6,045 cases that have screened positive for the worrisome common mutation.Dr.
Future lockdowns may need to be beefed up with curfews and travel restrictions to make them less “leaky,” he added.
What a garbage article. Deal with what is actually happening with cases stable and hospitalizations falling. Stop pumping out irrational fear, it’s shameful.
Hard to believe with all the measures in place across Canada These so called “variants” are thriving. Will any of this fall on JT for being a complete failure to his country ? Nope !
And down in Texas they are gonna be open at 100% for opening day. Our government has completely failed us. Again
No S urprise there!
From the almost unimaginable level of stupidity in the majority of the comments here, not only is it easy to understand why we’re in store for wave after wave, but also it’s obvious that Covid really needs a variant that sorts victims by IQ and starts at the bottom.
And yet my local Annex parks - Jean Sibelius & Vermont Square - had lots of unmasked adults & kids yesterday afternoon Selfish people letting others do the heavy lifting.
The fear mongers role. Click bait.
This really should be labelled the 'Ford wave' - he has orchestrated all the conditions required for this surge to take off.
jeffreybgray JohnTory Serious question re the photo in this article: Why on earth is Victoria’s Secret in the CFtoeatonCentre open while Toronto is in the COVID-19 grey zone and people are being instructed to stay home other than for essential trips? Unbelievable!
Vaccines may be too late to avoid...
Every 'wave' so far has been a dud. So how about start correcting the computer modeling.
Same data that has been modelled since February 25, 2021... Prior to fordnation opening Ontario for business ignoring the advice and all our collective sacrifices from December 26 onward.
motherfuckers get the province vaccinated...
VARIANTS can only be detected by the famous ass swap
Trust 'The Science®'
kellygrant1 If you're going to use COVID-19 variants as a reason for why there's a third wave, please report on Florida. No 3rd wave. My goodness the media in this province is ruining the mental health of everybody...
What a pile of horseshit
Same variants exist all over the world, yet other jurisdictions are successfully re-opening and abandoning lockdowns. Real world evidence directly contradicts these apocalyptic predictions, which have been invariably incorrect.
TrudeauVaccineFailure
Sick and tired of this shit...don’t know when we will get our lives back...thanks to China
I heard the 4th wave is big enough to surf on. We have been had. 99.9 percent chance you will not die. You have to be checked to see if you have it. Shall I go on?
Here's the thing....
Deadly variants are spreading in Media only, Hospital emergency rooms 50% are empty, honest media reporters can visit to verify. No name Palmist Health experts already announced for this planned third wave. Media & Hired Palmist experts are main characters of this C*rona
'New data' bs. Open it upppp.. nuf of this 3rd 6th 20th wave bs. This virus is here to replace the 'flu' get used to it. Every year new variant.
LOL AGAIN MORE PROPAGANDA 😂😂😂😂
The same curfews and travel restrictions Ford refused because he felt they were unenforceable? Sadly, with vaccines increasingly widespread - Ford is likely going to refuse lockdowns. I mean, he still won't pull the brake in certain regions with huge outbreaks.
Surprise surprise, right fordnation celliottability ? No one could have seen this 3rd wave coming...🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️😢😢😢 How many deaths will it take for you to do what is necessary to save the health and lives of Ontarioans? How many vaccine doses are sitting in the fridge tonight?
'on track' what track is that? The one with horrifically inacccurate models and garbage data filled by RT-PCR 'case' counts at a cycle threshold of 35+ or ...
Seriously. P!ss off. It’s over. Open it up.