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.
I think the core problem with this pandemic is the liberal mainstream media.
Lefty BC NDP has lighter restrictions than Tory Ontario and yet BC have 44% less COVID-19 deaths per capita than Ontario. So I don't think government is trying to deliberately allow more deaths.
The liberal mainstream media allows the NDP in BC to do whatever the fuck they want. But they put Doug Ford on a leash in Ontario.
Dr. Bonnie Henry in BC says that we need to balance mental health and the economy with the pandemic. And the media are a bunch of clapping seals for her. When Doug Ford was saying the same back in like November, the media was tearing him a new asshole for not locking down.
I have a Pajeeta friend in Surrey, BC. I'm in Peel (Ontario). She went out to dine indoors with her buds in Surrey in fucking January, peak flu-cold season. And obviously you're not wearing a mask when you're eating. Meanwhile here in Toronto and Peel, we've had indoor dining banned since October 10th. Over 3 months. There weren't any cops or by-law officers questioning her and her friends inside or chilling outside. Even though in BC it's technically illegal to meet people outside your household too. With a threat of a $230 fine. It's a $880 fine here in Ontario.
And we have more COVID-19 deaths than BC even though we're locked down harder than them.
Doug Ford and especially Francois Legault dropped the ball with long term care and that's the real reason why the COVID-19 death rate is higher here than in BC. While lefty BC NDP did a better job of preventing COVID from getting into nursing homes. And instead of taking personal responsibility for that, Doug Ford and Francois Legault finger wag at young people for having social gatherings and house parties.
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.
I think the core problem with this pandemic is the liberal mainstream media.
Lefty BC NDP has lighter restrictions than Tory Ontario and yet BC have 44% less COVID-19 deaths per capita than Ontario. So I don't think government is trying to deliberately allow more deaths.
The liberal mainstream media allows the NDP in BC to do whatever the fuck they want. But they put Doug Ford on a leash in Ontario.
Dr. Bonnie Henry in BC says that we need to balance mental health and the economy with the pandemic. And the media are a bunch of clapping seals for her. When Doug Ford was saying the same back in like November, the media was tearing him a new asshole for not locking down.
I have a Pajeeta friend in Surrey, BC. I'm in Peel (Ontario). She went out to dine indoors with her buds in Surrey in fucking January, peak flu-cold season. And obviously you're not wearing a mask when you're eating. Meanwhile here in Toronto and Peel, we've had indoor dining banned since October 10th. Over 3 months. There weren't any cops or by-law officers questioning her and her friends inside or chilling outside. Even though in BC it's technically illegal to meet people outside your household too. With a threat of a $230 fine. It's a $880 fine here in Ontario.
And we have more COVID-19 deaths than BC even though we're locked down harder than them.
Doug Ford and especially Francois Legault dropped the ball with long term care and that's the real reason why the COVID-19 death rate is higher here than in BC. While lefty BC NDP did a better job of preventing COVID from getting into nursing homes. And instead of taking personal responsibility for that, Doug Ford and Francois Legault finger wag at young people for having social gatherings and house parties.