TTC Special. Coronavirus: Tourists the day after

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Unprecedented levels of COVID-19 across Canada are driving hospitalizations as well and once again threatening many provincial health-care systems.

Yet experts say it’s too soon to say how much hospitalizations could grow in the days and weeks to come. With testing capacity at its breaking point and data still coming in on Omicron’s severity, they say modelling this latest wave will require updating their methodology.

“We’re flying blind,” said Caroline Colijn, a mathematics professor at Simon Fraser University who has been modelling the pandemic in British Columbia.

“There’s a good chance that by the time we have a clearer picture of where we are and where we might be going, we could be in the middle of a major situation for the health-care system.”

Global News

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