Preventable cold-related deaths take toll on Ontario’s homeless population, hospital staff

Preventable cold-related deaths take toll on Ontario’s homeless population, hospital staff

TORONTO — Seven times over the past two winters, doctors, nurses and staff in the emergency department of a downtown Toronto hospital took a moment of silence after a patient, often a Jane or John Doe, died from the cold.
Clinically,

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