Dr. Moore urges Ontario to wear masks again, but says RSV is not COVID

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To the disappointment of many, it appears Dr. Kieran Moore did not impose mandatory masking in all indoor settings across the state. Ontario’s chief medical officer has recommended that people wear masks, but stressed that the current problem is no longer COVID.

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“We strongly encourage all Ontarians to wear masks indoors and in public, not just those at high risk.

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He was asked various questions at least five times on Monday morning about why schools, malls, shopping centers, and workplaces don’t impose mask mandates statewide. I tried to explain to the public that the issue we are currently dealing with is not COVID-19.

Children’s hospitals and pediatric wards in Ontario deal primarily with children sick with RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, and influenza. He also believes the spread is happening mostly at home and family events, and even with mask mandates, most people aren’t wearing masks.

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“Thus, while masks in malls help reduce the spread of these viruses to the community, they should be worn around the most vulnerable people in social settings, which has never been mandated. “Family gatherings and family social situations must be masked to protect the youngest of us, those under the age of four.”

When it comes to RSV, the real threat to young children isn’t a healthy adult walking through the grocery store without a mask. It is a parent, sibling or close relative approaching a child when he or she sniffs.

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“A cold or mild respiratory symptoms, your sinus infection, could be RSV or the flu for young members of our community and can cause significant breathing difficulties,” Moore said. I got

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There are many theories about why RSV infections in particular are soaring, but not all of them are true. Dr Alasdair Munro, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Southampton University Hospital, said he was not exposed to RSV or other respiratory viruses when COVID measures were in place for new mothers and now sick children. I believe there is a relationship between

“Antibodies from the mother are passed on to the baby in the third trimester of pregnancy,” Munroe posted in a Twitter thread. also acquire antibodies from breast milk.

Munroe cites two different studies—one published by the American Society for Microbiology and one published by the Journal of Infectious Diseases—that showed lower antibody levels in both the blood and breast milk of new mothers. It shows that there was a level.

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There is little the Ford government, or any government, can do about this fact. What governments can do is help hospitals cope with the surge, especially by adding capacity.

They already allow children over the age of 14 to be cared for and spaced out in adult hospitals. .

Yes, surgery is delayed – it happens every flu season in Ontario hospitals. While not ideal, hospitals can handle surges.

The government also announced plans to fund capacity expansion of children’s hospitals to support the growing number of children’s hospitals.

The bad news is that we are in a bad place right now due to complications from the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news is that we are not facing the beginning of a new pandemic.