Why can't we just vaccinate ourselves out of this quickly enough?
SK has been the BEST vaccinating province so far.
Still, at the current 7-day vaccination rate, we will have vaccinated 75% of adults by June 21st.
We'll get there, but not fast enough to save us in April.
In fairness, I expect that June 21st date to move earlier. The last 7 days has included Easter Long Weekend & many drive-throughs / walk-ins just opened this week.
So we'll get there, but we have to get through April.
I'd anticipate that we have 1/3 of the adult population in SK vaccinated before April 23rd. But even then, we don't get benefit from the vaccine right away. So we won't see the benefit of that number until May.
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We can add beds and ventilators but there’s only so many people who know how to care for the people in them. You can’t just pull them off the ICU tree. Lord knows you don’t want me in there.
It’s not just the ICU healthcare workers. The non-ICU hospitalists are exhausted. The hospital is busting at the seams at baseline. Now add COVID. Add the people who haven’t been seeing their family doctor regularly for the last year and so aren’t getting preventative care.
I empathize with my colleagues in these other areas.
Because I’m also tired. I think everyone in society is. But it’s definitely true in healthcare.
And in child psychiatry where I am? I’m so exhausted. It’s non-stop. And we were busy BEFORE all this.
Friends, all my ICU colleagues are freaking out right now.
I mean like literally 100% of the ones I know are freaking out.
Not about what ‘might’ happen but what ‘is’ happening.
We’ve been at this long enough to have some Alarm Fatigue, but this is one I wouldn’t ignore.
Once the ICUs are getting hit, we’ve already screwed up. That’s a lagging indicator. One of the problems of using hospitalizations as a measure is you’re always reacting to where you were 3-4 weeks ago.
So these next few weeks are going to be tough.
These variants (UK and Brazil particularly) have taken off. The measures that we thought were enough for COVID-Classic don’t seem to be cutting it. This is spreading fast.
We’re at this really strange split in Saskatchewan right now, where the Ministry of Health and Health Authority are giving wildly different messages about the pandemic.
We got these two letters in the same email from our oldest’s school today:
The first one is from the Ministry of Health. I want you to compare the tone of this one to the one in the next tweet.
This is on the health authority website, linked to on the same email, and is signed by all the medical officers of health in the province.
They are VERY different messaging about the situation we’re in.
No one was more excited about me getting the vaccine than my 7yo.
Which made me wonder, for the first time, if he’d been worried about me getting COVID from work.
That said, 7yo is impatient for the vaccine himself, so he may just be excited.
Mostly because he couldn’t go to Ruckers for this birthday this year because of the pandemic and so has convinced himself that as soon as he gets the vaccine, he’s going straight to Ruckers.