variants of the coronavirus.For doctors on the frontlines like Dr. Jamie Spiegelman, the new variants are worrisome. As a physician in the intensive care unit of Toronto’s Humber River hospital, he has seen the pandemic in its worst light.
He’s learned to expect the sudden, terrible swings that often strike COVID-19 patients. B.C. becomes 2nd province to identify South African COVID-19 variant “Some patients have really minimal or no symptoms and some patients are so sick that they die within a couple of hours of coming to hospital, no matter what we do for them,” Spiegelman told Global News.This unit is over capacity as cases in the surrounding community climb out of control.