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| | SEMP - Emergency Departments and Epidemics: The 2003 Toronto SARS Experience |
 | | Closing the emergency department and ICU at Scarborough-Grace Hospital on March 23, 2003 was too late to have an effect on containing the epidemic. |
 | | At Scarborough-Grace Hospital, he spread SARS to an estimated 21 health care workers, patients, and visitors, including a liver transplant recipient who was transferred from Scarborough-Grace to Mt. Sinai on March 25, 2003, which is another arm of the epidemic that won’t be discussed here. |
 | | Hospital administrators at Scarborough-Grace Hospital delayed closing the hospital, according to Varley, because of the stigma of being unable to cope, eliminating a steady stream of revenues, and removing a facility from providing care to patients who needed care. |
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