Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health “strongly recommends” that Ontarians wear masks in all indoor public places, including schools and daycares, but refrains from making it mandatory.
Dr. Kieran Moore made the recommendation Monday as part of an update on the pediatric respiratory virus season, which has had the effect of clogging children’s hospitals across the province.
Some of Ontario’s largest children’s hospitals have had to postpone surgeries deemed elective to allocate more staff to emergency rooms and intensive care units, which are in many cases overflowing.
Dr Moore says adults can transmit respiratory viruses to children and young children under five are the most vulnerable.
The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario has opened a second pediatric intensive care unit, SickKids Hospital is canceling elective surgeries and children 14 and older in need of intensive care are being sent to intensive care units. intensive care for adults.
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