We will likely have waves of transmission. How we mitigate those and how we mitigate things like isolation and health care, which are big problems as we move forward, how we mitigate vaccinations and vaccine fatigue and how we mitigate access to therapeutics are really going to define how impactful these waves are going to be. With as much population immunity as we have, though, through vaccination and natural infection—we have data from the Canadian immunity task force and from British Columbia suggesting that 60% to 70% of Canadians have had COVID—I think we are probably at a point where the disease is causing local transmission but not necessarily in an emergency phase.
I practise in an acute-care hospital in a large context with many complex patients. In the last three to four months, there have been between zero and five people in our ICU, and even some of them have not been there primarily for COVID reasons. That acute health care demand phase of COVID is probably settling down, and with everything we have, it probably won't be a major issue from an intensive-care standpoint.