SARS Lessons Help Canada Prepare for COVID 19, but Hospital Capacity a Worry

SARS Lessons Help Canada Prepare for COVID 19, but Hospital Capacity a Worry
A plane carrying 176 Canadian citizens from the centre of the global novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, arrives at CFB Trenton, in Trenton, Ont., on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
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OTTAWA—Canadian medical experts say the country’s already overstretched emergency rooms would find it difficult to cope if a true outbreak of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, were to take hold in Canada.

So far, the virus has been relatively contained to mainland China, thanks in part to one of the largest quarantines in modern history.