“You deserve to know what I know when you’re making decisions for yourself, family and community,” a sombre Premier Doug Ford told Ontarians on Thursday. And on Friday Peter Donnelly, president and CEO of Public Health Ontario, finally gave us a glimpse of what Queen’s Park is planning for. With current anti-coronavirus measures in place, Queen’s Park is contemplating 80,000 cases of COVID-19 by April 30, causing 1,600 deaths. All told, Donnelly said, with public health measures implemented, the final death toll in the province could be anywhere between 3,000 and 15,000, over 18 to 24 months. And the long term is clearly not where public health officials need to be focusing right now.

Source: National Post April 04, 2020 00:11 UTC