Ontario needs at least a six-week stay-at-home order with an average of 100,000 vaccinations per day to get the third wave of COVID-19 now gripping the province under control, a panel of experts said Friday. In fact, even with stricter public health measures in place and about 300,000 vaccinations administered per day, it could take until the end of June to see cases counts drastically reduced. The "longer and stronger" public health measures remain in place, Brown said, the more it will drive down admissions to intensive care. Where Ontario went wrong after ChristmasPart of the problem, Brown explained, is that Ontario began easing public health measures during the brief lull between the second and third waves of the pandemic. “Could the government have prevented it if it had followed the modelling?” 3:31"This is what we were expecting moving forward if we relaxed public health measures" coming off the second wave, Brown said.

Source: CBC News April 16, 2021 17:08 UTC