Ontario reports more than 2,300 new COVID-19 cases, 15 deaths “It’s going to be to health care that’s being compromised for both COVID patients, but also for non-COVID patients, when we have to scale back services to deal with the burden and to cover cases.”On Wednesday, the province reported 2,300 new COVID-19 cases, the seventh straight day of caseloads over 2,000.About 1,100 are hospitalized with COVID-19 as of March 31 with 396 in intensive care units and 252 patients in ICUs on a ventilator.Dr.
Prabhat Jha, epidemiologist and professor of Global Health with the University of Toronto, says the difference with the latest wave compared to the previous two is ICU use.He says a drop in cases during the summer of 2020 allowed for hospitals.