According to a daily critical care report obtained by CP24, there were a total of 1,765 patients receiving treatment in the ICU as of Monday, including 267 with confirmed cases of COVID-19. The report pegs the total number of ICU beds in the province at 2,136, suggesting that there is some capacity for additional patients.
Here in Peel they report 97% acute care occupancy, 92% ICU as of January 11th. They have been triaging in ICU for awhile now. There's 463 COVID deaths among 65+ year olds in Peel but only 97 seniors were ever admitted to ICU. So you're looking at a situation in which at least 79% of 65+ year olds sick enough to die or need intensive care here never get sent to the ICU. And a lot of nursing home residents don't even get sent to acute care.
https://www.peelregion.ca/health-professionals/covid-19/pdf/epi-update-2021-01-15.pdf
They had 10 months to prepare for this though. And they wasted their time. It makes far more sense to hire more nurses, have tent hospitals and more beds than to put a bunch of people on CRB and give up our civil liberties and the things that bring joy to our lives.
The questions that I have aren't about ventilators.
They had 10 months to prepare for this though.
Exactly. It doesn't appear that any preparation or progress was made for the "second wave" at all.
In the first few months any talk of treatment options was burnt to the ground and Vaccination was quickly introduced as our only savior without the public being provided an ounce of explanation of what Covid is in the first place.
You would think that we would have made progress on treatment well before the miracle of Vaccination came. ?
In 10 months we have heard the exact same spiel, repeated over and over, with no new information other than a daily case count.
ICU capacity is no where near used up in any hospital in Canada, USA or other 1st world countries. You can look up the occupancy and its updated daily for every province and hospital. Here's a news report from Dec 2020 on Ontario beds - https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/there-are-now-more-patients-in-ontario-icus-than-at-any-point-during-covid-19-pandemic-1.5232066
About 10% of beds used for covid in Ontario.
That article is a month old. COVID ICU is at 387 in Ontario now. So that would peg COVID ICU occupancy at 18%. https://www.ontario.ca/page/how-ontario-is-responding-covid-19
Here in Peel they report 97% acute care occupancy, 92% ICU as of January 11th. They have been triaging in ICU for awhile now. There's 463 COVID deaths among 65+ year olds in Peel but only 97 seniors were ever admitted to ICU. So you're looking at a situation in which at least 79% of 65+ year olds sick enough to die or need intensive care here never get sent to the ICU. And a lot of nursing home residents don't even get sent to acute care. https://www.peelregion.ca/health-professionals/covid-19/pdf/epi-update-2021-01-15.pdf
They had 10 months to prepare for this though. And they wasted their time. It makes far more sense to hire more nurses, have tent hospitals and more beds than to put a bunch of people on CRB and give up our civil liberties and the things that bring joy to our lives.
The questions that I have aren't about ventilators.
Exactly. It doesn't appear that any preparation or progress was made for the "second wave" at all.
In the first few months any talk of treatment options was burnt to the ground and Vaccination was quickly introduced as our only savior without the public being provided an ounce of explanation of what Covid is in the first place.
You would think that we would have made progress on treatment well before the miracle of Vaccination came. ?
In 10 months we have heard the exact same spiel, repeated over and over, with no new information other than a daily case count.