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Can't be more clear than this, economy > lives
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-not-ready-to-revert-to-stage-2-despite-covid-19-modelling-predicting-remarkably-high-surge-1.5126032
New COVID-19 modelling released by the Ontario government on Wednesday forecasts the province could reach 1,000 new infections per day by mid-October but Premier Doug Ford said it's not time to roll back to Stage 2.
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According to the provincial government, when there are less than 150 COVID-19 patients being treated in intensive care in Ontario hospitals, the province can "maintain non-COVID capacity and all scheduled surgeries." Once that number rises above 150 it becomes harder to support non-COVID-19 needs, the government said. Once it exceeds 350 people, it becomes "impossible" to handle.
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But despite mounting pressure from some health-care professionals to move Ontario back to Stage 2, Ford said the province isn't ready for that yet. "We aren't rolling back today, not saying that's never going to happen, but that's not the conversation we are going to have today," Ford said. Meanwhile, health officials in Ontario continue to record numbers of new COVID-19 infections at levels unseen since April.
So, we're just going to wait until the ICUs fill up (of which half will die, the other half and many of those in normal hospital beds left with long term recovery)
625 new cases today, doubling time 10 to 12 days atm.
