Ontario's top doctor says it's time to learn to live with COVID-19

Ontario's top doctor says it’s time to 'learn to live with COVID-19' as he anticipates the province is in for a much better spring.

"We have let our lives be controlled for the last two years in a significant amount of fear and now we are going to have to change some of that thinking," Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore said Thursday.

Moore credited COVID-19 vaccines, especially third doses, and new antiviral medications, as the reasons why Ontario needs to shift to a more "balanced response" to the pandemic. 

"I think we have to start to understand we have to learn to live with this virus," Moore said. 

He said January has been a tough month on the province’s health-care system, but things should crest in February.