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.
It also makes sense to invest in proper screening abilities and training so the virus stays out of long term care facilities in the first place. Then ICU capacity and ventilators become less of an issue. Both Quebec and Ontario have failed miserably at keeping the elderly safe, and the draconian policies that affect the entire population are the result.
Yeah BC's COVID-19 deaths per capita is 44% less than Ontario. And astronomically less than Quebec. New York City is on a whole other galaxy. I think it's because lefty BC NDP does a better job with managing long term care than cuckservative Ontario and Quebec. And Democrats Andrew Cuomo and Bill De Blasio were the absolute worst at managing long term care. If you spend a little money in the short-term to boost your LTC screening and testing protocols and abilities, you end up saving a lot of money in the long-term by keeping people employed and avoiding a stay at home order or curfew.
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.
It also makes sense to invest in proper screening abilities and training so the virus stays out of long term care facilities in the first place. Then ICU capacity and ventilators become less of an issue. Both Quebec and Ontario have failed miserably at keeping the elderly safe, and the draconian policies that affect the entire population are the result.
Yeah BC's COVID-19 deaths per capita is 44% less than Ontario. And astronomically less than Quebec. New York City is on a whole other galaxy. I think it's because lefty BC NDP does a better job with managing long term care than cuckservative Ontario and Quebec. And Democrats Andrew Cuomo and Bill De Blasio were the absolute worst at managing long term care. If you spend a little money in the short-term to boost your LTC screening and testing protocols and abilities, you end up saving a lot of money in the long-term by keeping people employed and avoiding a stay at home order or curfew.