Some hospitals in Toronto area have to transfer pediatric in-patients to Sick Kids to make room for adults with COVID-19

For the first time, some Toronto-area hospitals are being forced to transfer pediatric in-patients to the Hospital for Sick Children to make room for an unprecedented surge of adults needing treatment for COVID-19. It's yet another sign that the escalating numbers of critically ill patients with the virus are putting extreme pressures on hospitals already struggling to cope.