Here in Toronto, we ended the Covid Emergency Declaration in May.
As the media was hyping the latest variants a few days ago on TV, Mayor John Tory stood up at a press conference and said there were just four Covid patients in Toronto ICUs. Just four.
Yes, cases are climbing. But between the variants being milder and now having much better treatment options, fewer really bad outcomes seem to be happening. People are back to going outside and living life, and that's increasing cases but not overwhelming ICUs anymore.
So I don't think we're anywhere close to "crisis-point" again. ERs might be full, but those ERs were backed up long before Covid hit.
Many family doctors, including mine, are still solely doing telephone appointments.
Which means that when you really feel that you want to see a doctor in person, you head for an ER.
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