Ontario doctors are advising people to keep up with vaccinations ahead of the fall, when illnesses including COVID-19 and influenza are expected to spread amid health system challenges.Physicians spoke at a virtual panel hosted by the Ontario Medical Association to for a lookahead discussion about the pandemic and other health-care issues in the coming months.Infectious diseases specialist Dr.
Zain Chagla says other countries have seen influenza spikes this year and Ontario should brace for something similar, as well as a likely increase in COVID-19 cases in the fall.
Omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccines: Could updated shots prevent a fall wave? Chagla says Ontarians should get their flu shots to avoid serious symptomatic illness and related health-care strain as the system deals with staffing shortages and other challenges.Dr.
Andrew Petrosoniak, an emergency doctor in Toronto, says he anticipates hospital strain will worsen in the fall after a summer of long wait times and temporary closures in emergency departments due to staffing shortages.Pediatrician Dr.