Skip to comments.
SARS on the wane, but stigma lingers, officials say
Yahoo News ^
| June 4, 2003
| staff
Posted on 06/04/2003 10:09:29 AM PDT by Judith Anne
TORONTO (AFP) - A second SARS (news - web sites) outbreak here is tailing off, but the fallout from Toronto's severe acute respiratory syndrome is still felt at hospitals, businesses and in the rest of Canada.
Canada is the only country outside Asia to report any SARS-related deaths since it arrived in March. All 32 Canadian deaths occurred in the Toronto area. Seven of these are linked to the most recent outbreak, first reported on May 22.
Ontario's commissioner of public security, James Young, said that health officials saw a peak in new SARS cases over the weekend. However, they were not "seeing surprises" so far.
"We expect that we will see some more cases in the next few days," as the outbreak continues on a downward slope, he told reporters Tuesday.
Ontario, whose capital is Toronto, reported 64 probable SARS cases Tuesday, up two from Monday.
TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: canada; sars; toronto
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
A peak in cases over the weekend, but "no surprises."
How does he know it's the peak?
To: aristeides; blam; flutters; riri; Dog Gone; FL_engineer; Prince Charles; per loin; harpseal; ...
ping.
2
posted on
06/04/2003 10:11:58 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.)
To: Judith Anne; CathyRyan; Mother Abigail; Dog Gone; Petronski; per loin; riri; flutters; ...
To: All
To: All
To: Judith Anne
How does he know it's the peak?The economists told hm it had better be.
6
posted on
06/04/2003 10:36:02 AM PDT
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: jacquej; All
To: All
To: Judith Anne
They have to be calculating a future wave due to the highschool/daycare exposure and the kids breaking quarantine...there will be more cases shortly.
To: All
To: All
To: All
To: Judith Anne
How does he know it's the peak. Chretien told him.
To: All
To: desertcry
cretin doesn't come back from Europe until after the June 6th anniversary celebrations of D-Day.
To: All
To: aristeides
The critter may not come back to Canada, he is having so much fun kissing french butt, drinking their dirty wine and eating their stinky cheese.
To: All
To: aristeides
"...221 other persons under investigation (as a precautionary measure, these persons receive the same treatment as probable and suspect cases)"
So they have 221 cases they have conveniently left out of their official case totals. These obviously should be in the suspect column.
To: aristeides
Thanks, Ari... only one county away from me! I am in Chautauqua County... just south of Niagara County. I expect it to be here soon. Just too many Torontonians down here for it not to be, but, I am not gonna panic.
I feel so bad for Canada. I know they messed up, but I know we here on this side of the border wouldn't have done any better if we had been the unlucky ones to get an early "super-spreader" case showing up in one of our emergency rooms.
None of our health care workers would have been any quicker to put on the proper garb than the Toronto health care workers were. I mean, "like, who knew"???
20
posted on
06/04/2003 5:24:04 PM PDT
by
jacquej
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson