Toronto calls in the superheroes to help with vaccinating young children against COVID-19.
The only problem — or is it?
The city of Toronto is preparing for a major outbreak of the novel coronavirus that has already hit the United Kingdom, Italy, Iran, and Spain. At least 50 people there have died of COVID-19, and the numbers rising in Germany, Italy and Spain.
We’ve also had two recent deaths in Toronto. Of the two, one had underlying health conditions and the other did not.
The other deaths, in particular, make the city particularly vulnerable to a major outbreak of COVID-19. Toronto has large numbers of people with underlying health conditions — some of them are extremely elderly — and, of course, there is one new coronavirus every few weeks, which is why the city is taking all precautions needed in the case of a new coronavirus outbreak, including implementing a public health order.
If there has been a new coronavirus outbreak in Toronto in the past, and we want to be prepared for it, then this is what we can do to protect ourselves and our communities.
These are the things we need to be prepared for:
A major outbreak of COVID-19 in Toronto, with a major spike in cases in our hospitals.
A major outbreak of COVID-19 in Toronto, with an increase in hospitalizations and fatalities, in a rapid manner.
A major outbreak of COVID-19 with an increase of hospitalizations and fatalities in one of our major hospitals, in a rapid manner.
If one of these conditions occur, what should be done in a situation where we have the potential to have such a big outbreak?
We don’t know how this new coronavirus will spread in Toronto.
We don’t know how this new coronavirus will spread in Toronto, with its ability to be resistant to medication and other health care treatments.
We don’t know if the virus will remain at a low level in Toronto, with a low impact to our population.
What we do know, is that this new coronavirus, like many other viruses that cause disease, has different stages of spread from
