May 19, 2021 - Toronto Star

Toronto Star - We’re so close to the pandemic being over. Let’s not mess this up

By: Bruce Arthur

Kids under 12 still can’t be vaccinated yet, though at least they’re the least at risk. Variants are still a wild card. The ICUs remain overfull, and the decline of patients has stalled in the high 700s for a system that used to say 150 was difficult; without functioning intensive care a society will have trouble functioning. From cancelled surgeries to deferred doctors’ visits to undercounted mortality, the bill in this province has been run very high — for all the suffering, we’re not done. As Dr. Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the NIA and a member of the science table, puts it, “many of the deaths have been deferred.”