Scott Thompson Show

Intensive care units filling with COVID-19 patients, Vaccination Day in Ontario & Increasing the carbon tax

Informações:

Synopsis

The Scott Thompson Show Podcast Critical Care Services Ontario reported that as of Friday at midnight, there were 251 COVID-19 patients in Ontario intensive care units and 152 people on ventilators. By comparison, at the peak of the first wave, there were 283 COVID-19 ICU patients. Doctors say they are seeing on average 21 new COVID-19 ICU cases every day. Guest: Dr. Samantha Hill, President of the Ontario Medical Association - Canada’s first batch of coronavirus vaccine doses have now arrived in the country and Ontario has seen that start of vaccinations. Guest: Dr. Susan Waserman, Professor Clinical Immunology & Allergy Division Director Medicine, Clinical Immunology & Allergy at McMaster University - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today released the government's strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 – its centrepiece is a gradual hike in the federal carbon tax on fuels to $170 a tonne by that year. Guest: Jasmine Moulton, Canadian Taxpayers Federation