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.
Yeah it's nonsensical to lay off nurses in the summer when you're gonna need them for the new coronavirus season in the fall/winter. I think Doug Ford deserves criticism from the media for Ontario's handling of the pandemic. But the focus of the liberal mainstream media's criticism is totally off. The Toronto-based liberal mainstream media finger wags at young people for having social gatherings. Meanwhile the real problem is Doug Ford's handling of long term care and hospitals in this province. BC still has indoor dining and their COVID-19 death rate is 44% less. I have a friend in Surrey, BC, the COVID hotspot of BC with lots of Pajeets. Her and her buds don't live together and they were allowed to dine in no questions asked. Restaurants just ask for your email/phone number for contact tracing. She was hanging out with her friends outside maskless. No cops or by-law officers harrassing her and her friends.
Meanwhile in Norfolk County (Delhi, Ontario, a town of like 4,200 people) a mom (34) and grandma (58) get fined $880 each because the grandma volunteered to babysit her grandchild. A neighbour snitched to 311 because they weren't part of the same household.
Fuck this province. Fuck Doug Ford and the Cuckservative Party of Ontario. Fuck John Tory. Fuck Bonnie Crombie. Fuck Dr. David Williams, Dr. Eileen de Villa. Fuck Dr. Lawrence Loh.
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.
Yeah it's nonsensical to lay off nurses in the summer when you're gonna need them for the new coronavirus season in the fall/winter. I think Doug Ford deserves criticism from the media for Ontario's handling of the pandemic. But the focus of the liberal mainstream media's criticism is totally off. The Toronto-based liberal mainstream media finger wags at young people for having social gatherings. Meanwhile the real problem is Doug Ford's handling of long term care and hospitals in this province. BC still has indoor dining and their COVID-19 death rate is 44% less. I have a friend in Surrey, BC, the COVID hotspot of BC with lots of Pajeets. Her and her buds don't live together and they were allowed to dine in no questions asked. Restaurants just ask for your email/phone number for contact tracing. She was hanging out with her friends outside maskless. No cops or by-law officers harrassing her and her friends.
Meanwhile in Norfolk County (Delhi, Ontario, a town of like 4,200 people) a mom (34) and grandma (58) get fined $880 each because the grandma volunteered to babysit her grandchild. A neighbour snitched to 311 because they weren't part of the same household.
Fuck this province. Fuck Doug Ford and the Cuckservative Party of Ontario. Fuck John Tory. Fuck Bonnie Crombie. Fuck Dr. David Williams, Dr. Eileen de Villa. Fuck Dr. Lawrence Loh.