Ontario science table to release new COVID-19 modelling for first time in 2022

The group of scientists advising the Ford government on its pandemic response is set to release new modelling projections for the first time in 2022 Tuesday morning.

The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table said that it will post the new projections to its website at around 9 a.m.

The new modelling comes one day after Ontario formally lifted a number of public health restrictions, allowing a wide swath of businesses to reopen at 50 per cent capacity.

The Ford government has also said that it plans to lift all capacity limits for indoor settings as of March 14, so long as public health indicators continue to improve.

“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 told reporters last week. "I think we have to start to understand we have to learn to live with this virus.”