After all, of the health care staff who handled SARS patients on the other side of the country, only one got the virus. “Now, we don’t have any kind of excuse.”In Toronto, SARS spread mainly through health care workers like Sorrenti, or hospital visitors. It’s not the first time a pandemic plan centred on the safety of health care workers will be tested in Canada. The Ontario SARS Commission, tasked with getting to the bottom of what went wrong during the outbreak released its final report in 2007. “I was the sickest I’d ever been but I wasn’t the sickest SARS patient,” she said of the experience.

Source: thestar January 28, 2020 10:52 UTC