Canada’s hospital capacity crisis will remain long after the pandemic is over
At 10 a.m. on Feb. 14, the hallways of Hamilton General Hospital echoed with a cascade of pings as cellphones lit up with a breaking news alert.
The Ontario government had just announced it would be ending many of its most impactful public-health measures in two weeks, including the vaccine passport system. Dr. Sunjay Sharma, the hospital’s medical director of critical care, was working in the third-floor intensive-care unit when the news broke. As he looked out at the tired staff, dread gripped his chest.