in regards to the icu and hospital numbers
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this is the graph taken directly from Ontario's website. the black line is the ICU numbers. they are not relaying all the info (surprise)
what I was told, from someone who has been working in an ICU with Covid patents. Some people go into the hospital and get on a ventilator for a few days and then get better and move out. However there are a large number of elderly people who, due to the severity of their illness or underlying condition, are not leaving the hospital. They have been left in a state where they cannot return to the care home they were in due to ventilator requirements or other health reasons. Sadly they will most likely remain in the ICU or hospital until they pass. They no longer have the virus and are not contagious but since Covid was the reason for them being immitted, they remain on the count for Covid ICU and hospitalization counts.
apparently ICU capacity is currently only around 20% but the lockdown talk has begun again