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Georgian Bay General Hospital reporting 19 cases of COVID-19

The COVID-19 outbreak at Midland’s Georgian Bay General Hospital now includes 19 positive cases.

On Dec. 8, hospital officials announced an additional three staff members and one patient had tested positive for the virus, bringing the total at GBGH to 16 staff members and three patients.

Hospital staff, in consultation with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, have been conducting extensive contact tracing. If someone received care at GBGH between Nov. 23 and Dec. 4 and were in contact with a patient or staff member who has tested positive for COVID-19, their names have been identified through contact tracing and they’ve been contacted.

GBGH continues to test staff to identify any positive cases. All inpatients have been tested and all new patient admissions to the hospital are being tested.

“Over the past four days, the hospital has tested more than 520 credentialed staff,” said Dr. Dan Lee, COVID medical lead and chief of Emergency Medicine at GBGH. “As more testing tends to net more positive results, we do expect the potential to see an increase in positives, similar to when testing increases in the community and more positive cases are detected.”

The Midland COVID-19 Assessment Centre has also seen an increase in positive cases, with four new confirmed community cases reported on Dec. 7 and another four reported on Dec. 8. These eight cases are not related to the outbreak at GBGH. 

Anyone in the community experiencing symptoms should seek COVID-19 testing at the Midland COVID-19 Assessment Centre, located in the GBGH parking lot, by or by calling .

Inside the ER in the second wave

Frontline health care workers — doctors, nurses, health care professionals — continue to be heroes in this pandemic. They are constant soldiers in the grinding and seemingly relentless war against COVID-19, which in the second wave.

But amidst the fight, there are great achievements: better public health practices, a health care system that has not broken, of vaccine clinical trials that will (hopefully) lead to distribution in 2021. What does COVID look like on the heath care frontlines, nine months later? And what does the public need to know now, as hope abounds for a pandemic endgame?

“This Matters” heads back to the ER with Dr. David Carr, an emergency room physician in Toronto, to share the experiences of frontline health care workers, the health care lessons that have been learned, and what his best day of the pandemic means for everyone else.

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Bracebridge OPP investigate sudden death of resident

Members of the Bracebridge OPP Muskoka Crime Unit and Community Street Crime Unit, under the direction of the Criminal Investigation Branch, are investigating the sudden death of 30-year-old Jodi-Lynne Turner.

The death occurred on Oct. 23 at a residence on Uffington Road.

The OPP want to assure the community that there is no concern for public safety. Investigators are seeking anyone who may have information about this incident.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Bracebridge OPP at or Crime Stoppers at . You can submit your information online at if you have any information about this or any other crime. Being anonymous, you will not testify in court, and your information may lead to a cash reward of up to $2,000.