Recommendation comes after kids' hospitals were overwhelmed in recent weeks by a massive influx of very sick patients
TORONTO — Ontario's chief medical officer of health is "strongly recommending" Ontarians mask in all indoor public settings, including schools and child-care centres, but is stopping short of mandating it.
Some major children's hospitals have had to cancel non-urgent surgeries in order to redeploy staff to the emergency department and intensive care units that are operating over capacity.
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