https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html
Canada's national data updated daily will be primary source for data and you can go to any provincial health site for rest of data on ICU Beds, Hospitalizations, etc at a local level if you desire.
Total Hospitals in 2019 - Approx 1244
From Canada.ca data linked above:
Between April 19, 2021 and April 26, 2021:
the number of hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients - 3,182 beds.
the number of ICU beds occupied by COVID-19 patients - 1,365 beds.
the number of COVID-19 patients who were mechanically vented - 788.
There have been over 32,127,668 COVID-19 tests performed in Canada or 845,348 tests per 1 million people. Of these, 4.1% were positive.
We have detailed case report data on 1,202,682 cases in total, and hospitalization status for 830,342 (69.0%) of them:
61,938 cases (7.5%) total were hospitalized, of whom:
11,335 (18.3%) total were admitted to the ICU
1,829 (3.0%) needed mechanical ventilation
Out of the 830,000 total cases in Canada we have data for, 7.5% were hospitalized for a total of 62,000 people. Of those 62,000, only 11,000 were admitted to the ICU and of that 11,000, only 1,800 needed a ventilator. That's the entire pandemic. For reference, Ontario has over 3500 ICU beds on its own, though about 1000 are for overflow/post-surgery/etc. At start of pandemic, Quebec stated it was ready for it with over 1000 ICU beds and 3000 ventilators.
Even taking that into consideration, Ontario ALONE has more than enough capacity for THE ENTIRE COUNTRY based on the national data and Ontario and Quebec make up the highest percent of cases at about 66% of our total. Both have more ICU beds combined than the total active ICU patients in the country with thousands of beds to spare. Official data from their provincial websites show they have less ICU usage than previous years. They are not near standard operating capacity even with covid at height of pandemic. Yet every hospital is at capacity and overloaded and system failing? Theyve had a year to add capacity and not one hospital has expanded their capacity in any meaningful way. Ontario laid off hundreds of nurses for Christ's sake. We have over 1200 hospitals. There are only 1400 ICU patients. 1 per hospital nationwide. Yes, we cant get a perfect distribution, but the beds arent perfectly distributed either. Higher populations obviously have higher number of beds and economy of scale to expand. But 1 fucking bed per hospital nationwide is the extent of our covid ICU emergency? That is collapsing our system? The two largest provinces hit have enough capacity for the entire fucking nation. When do the lies stop?
Oh, I was also going to go into money, but was getting long and off-topic a little, but a PCR test is $50 to $200 range. We've performed 32 MILLION tests to date and are doing thousands per day. Let's use a simple math with 100 and that's over $3 BILLION spent on testing with the most useless test ever conceived that has a false positive rate of over 97% with the cycle threshold we are using. And that's just the tests. Personnel, training, handling and transportation, administration and massive numbers of additional costs are not included in that THREE BILLION DOLLARS.
Thanks for the time and summary of your research. I've done posts like this in the past and was slightly disheartened when it seemed noone gave a fuck. BUT people read, memory bank and move on. I do that too. Here is an acknowledgement of your passion/post whether you wanted one or not haha.
You've been absolutely killing it KM
Not to mention that pre-covid, ICU's were at 100% capacity for fucking years.
They claim the shortage is nurses, which is reasonable, it takes 4 years to train nurses. (Maybe we could have found a way to train more faster? I'm not sure.) But KM claims nurses have been laid off.
It makes no sense to lay off nurses when the hospital are "overwhelmed." Were they re-hired?
I have stopped expecting any of this to make any sense.
Doesn't Canada have a law that recognizes the medical licenses of foreign workers?
Exactly. This is why it is not about health. People just don't want to know
You also gotta go back several years where they SHUT DOWN hospitals around the country for "under performing".