And as health-care teams remain dangerously overstretched, they’re also grappling with the pressure of what some physicians are calling a “new norm” for seasonal illnesses — a range of viral and bacterial infections all back in circulation, with COVID-19 still chief among them.
Two pediatric facilities in Montreal held a joint news conference on Wednesday to hammer home the challenges ahead, while urging families to rely on community-based clinics rather than overflowing emergency departments whenever possible.
It’s a Canada-wide problem: Data shows millions of Canadians don’t have a regular health-care provider, while a new report from Ontario’s acting auditor general suggests in that province, one in five patients who visited emergency departments were only there because they lack a family doctor.
“On top of an already elevated baseline, now we’re seeing all of the usual fall respiratory illnesses coming in, plus COVID, which never existed four years ago,” Dr. Lisa Salamon, an emergency physician in Toronto, told CBC News.
Parts of the U.S., China, Denmark, and several other European countries are all reporting higher levels of pneumonia infections, while South Korean health officials announced hospitalizations for the illness have doubled in the last month, mostly among children.
“Immunity to mycoplasma may have fallen, because many people may not have been exposed to it during times of social distancing,” explained Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
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And as health-care teams remain dangerously overstretched, they’re also grappling with the pressure of what some physicians are calling a “new norm” for seasonal illnesses — a range of viral and bacterial infections all back in circulation, with COVID-19 still chief among them.
Two pediatric facilities in Montreal held a joint news conference on Wednesday to hammer home the challenges ahead, while urging families to rely on community-based clinics rather than overflowing emergency departments whenever possible.
It’s a Canada-wide problem: Data shows millions of Canadians don’t have a regular health-care provider, while a new report from Ontario’s acting auditor general suggests in that province, one in five patients who visited emergency departments were only there because they lack a family doctor.
“On top of an already elevated baseline, now we’re seeing all of the usual fall respiratory illnesses coming in, plus COVID, which never existed four years ago,” Dr. Lisa Salamon, an emergency physician in Toronto, told CBC News.
Parts of the U.S., China, Denmark, and several other European countries are all reporting higher levels of pneumonia infections, while South Korean health officials announced hospitalizations for the illness have doubled in the last month, mostly among children.
“Immunity to mycoplasma may have fallen, because many people may not have been exposed to it during times of social distancing,” explained Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
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