By Staff
March 31st, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
Of course we know – but we don’t seem capable of doing all that much about what is going to happen next.
Epidemiologist Peter Jüni said the highly transmissible BA.2 variant of Omicron isn’t the main culprit — its peoples’ actions, bolstered by the relaxing of health restrictions. He calls it the “‘throw-caution-to-the-wind’ wave.”
Hospitalizations are rising, too — up to nearly 800 this week from around 600 just 10 days ago.
Meanwhile we have a Premier taking a major risk to public health while he scrambles to win re-election. Why the public health people have not returned to wider testing is hard to understand,
