COVID-19: Hospital Admissions Better or Worse Now?
In the 3rd summer of the pandemic, are things better or worse? Looking at the # of hospital admissions because of COVID-19 in Ottawa from July 1st to August 15 in 2020, 2021, and 2022 things are definitely worse. 🧵1/
In the 3rd summer of the pandemic, are things better or worse? Looking at the # of hospital admissions because of COVID-19 in Ottawa from July 1st to August 15 in 2020, 2021, and 2022 things are definitely worse. 🧵1/
Admissions because of COVID are 18.5x higher this summer than 2021 and 8.4x higher than 2020. Removing all COVID-19 protective measures maybe wasn't the best idea? 2/
Similarly looking at Canada as a whole, hospitalizations are 7.6x higher now than they were this time last year and every day in 2022 has been above the average for 2020-2021 (
https://twitter.com/Billius27/status/1560430180254060547). 3/
Hospitals are overwhelmed with an increase in demand but also not enough staff to take care of patients at the same time. Hamilton Health Sciences had to put out a message about high wait times in emergency and extremely high patient volumes (
https://twitter.com/HamHealthSci/status/1560705335832330241). 4/
@HamHealthSci currently have 180 staff and physicians off work because of COVID-19 infections/isolation, and dealing with 5 COVID-19 outbreaks in their hospitals with over 100 patients infected. 5/
Since people seem to care more about airport delays than hospitals crumbling these days, here is some news for you. 6/
The Transport Minister told the House of Commons transport committee that COVID-19 is to blame for airport delays, causing labour shortages that are primarily contributing to delays ( ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/cov… ). 7/
Imagine if a proper ventilation standard was created to address aerosol transmission of viruses that could significantly reduce the risk of getting infected in the first place (from all airborne viruses). 8/
That new ventilation standard also required buildings to actually implement it and test regularly to ensure the systems were functioning properly and meeting the standard. 9/
In addition if people were actually willing to wear masks when community transmission was high, this would further help prevent many of these infections that are causing the staffing shortages that are impacting your daily lives. 10/
Whether you care about travel or being treated at a hospital if you are sick, it helps all sectors and still works no matter how much the viruses mutate. 11/
With school starting soon, large numbers of close contact networks will be created again that will facilitate spread even more so we better move #FASSST to try and make schools a more safe learning environment now (
https://twitter.com/Billius27/status/1560647776958140416). 12/
Not only would this help reduce learning disruption for our children, and prevent transmission back into the community, but will actually protect the health of our children from long-term complications and higher risk for life-threatening diagnoses (
https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1555294752941035520).13/
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