Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Jan. 8 that the province may take more extreme measures if the COVID-19 situation in Ontario does not improve. At a press conference accompanied by Minister of Health Christine Elliott, Minister of Education Stephen Lecce, and Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ford urged Ontarians to continue practicing public health measures including staying at home, practice distancing, wearing masks, and washing hands. “If these basic measures continue to be ignored, the consequences will be more dire, the shutdown won’t end at the end of January, and we will have to look at more extreme measures,” he said. Ford also said vaccine supplies in Ontario are running out and that he is hoping the federal government will help secure more vaccines for the province. “All of Ontario will be out of Pfizer vaccines by the end of next week,” he said, noting that …