Rise in health care worker infections to more than 16,000 in last 3 months signals calamity; decisive action on airborne transmission needed

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Even before the new COVID-19 variants hit Ontario, health care worker infections were dangerously high, doubling in the last three months to over 16,000, the Ontario government’s own data shows. In 2020 for the first 10 months of the pandemic to October 23, 7,488 health care staff contracted COVID-19 at work. In the last 3 months ending January 22, 2021 the number has increased to 16,204. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) warns that left unchecked, this rap

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