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Source: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/04/05/ontario-children-covid19-hospital-admissions/
Sick children are flooding Ontario emergency rooms with COVID-like symptoms in 'dramatic increase'
By Shauna Hunt and Lucas Casaletto
Posted Apr 5, 2022, 11:31PM EDT.
Last Updated Apr 5, 2022, 11:33PM EDT.
There appears to be a surge in the number of children admitted to emergency rooms with serious symptoms of COVID-19 — some reporting the highest number of visits since the pandemic began years ago.
In the last two weeks provincewide, 89 children have been hospitalized. The recent spike in children-related infections comes in Ontario as another Canadian province, Québec, restored its mask mandate. That is leading to growing calls for the Ford government to do the same.
“We’re seeing kids who are having high fevers. Kids where it’s painful for them to breathe and some kids that need oxygen supplementation,” Toronto ER physician Dr. Brett Belchetz said in an interview with CityNews.
Many emergency departments across the GTA are experiencing a steady flow of young children, primarily unvaccinated, with COVID-like symptoms...
Sick children are flooding Ontario emergency rooms with COVID-like symptoms in 'dramatic increase'
By Shauna Hunt and Lucas Casaletto
Posted Apr 5, 2022, 11:31PM EDT.
Last Updated Apr 5, 2022, 11:33PM EDT.
There appears to be a surge in the number of children admitted to emergency rooms with serious symptoms of COVID-19 — some reporting the highest number of visits since the pandemic began years ago.
In the last two weeks provincewide, 89 children have been hospitalized. The recent spike in children-related infections comes in Ontario as another Canadian province, Québec, restored its mask mandate. That is leading to growing calls for the Ford government to do the same.
“We’re seeing kids who are having high fevers. Kids where it’s painful for them to breathe and some kids that need oxygen supplementation,” Toronto ER physician Dr. Brett Belchetz said in an interview with CityNews.
Many emergency departments across the GTA are experiencing a steady flow of young children, primarily unvaccinated, with COVID-like symptoms...
