The respiratory virus crisis at CHEO intensified this week, even as adult hospitals were asked to begin taking some teen patients and more non-emergency surgeries were canceled to help ease the pressure. Read More
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Adult hospitals asked to take on young patients as CHEO copes with unprecedented viral case surge
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