Intensive care in the hospital, COVID-19
All Ontario is keeping a watchful eye on ICU occupancy as a gauge of just how serious the current wave of Omicron variant infection will be to both the health care system and to the personal health of each citizen. The government issued a new case total of 3,453 Tuesday and calculated a seven-day rolling average of 3,153 today up from 1,400 a week ago. Admissions to intensive care units are up by a single patient to 165 from Monday. This indicates that the 600-bed capacity of all ICUs is at 27.5 percent usage. A common and perhaps reasonable response to Omicron is that ICU capacity rather than gross numbers of cases is a better measure of just how sick anyone may get if he/she contracts the infection.
