Ontario reports 558 people in the ICU due to COVID-19 and 3,957 in the hospital overall have tested positive for COVID-19, according to its latest report released Saturday morning.
Of those hospitalized, 53 percent were admitted for COVID-19 and 47 percent were admitted for other reasons but have since tested positive. For the ICU numbers, 78 percent were admitted for COVID-19 and 22 percent were admitted for other reasons but have since tested positive.
The numbers represent a two percent decrease in the COVID-19 ICU count and a 0.5 percent increase in hospitalizations overall. Some 23 percent of the province’s 2,343 adult ICU beds remain available for new patients.
Given new provincial regulations on testing that take effect on December 31, 2021, the case counts, reported at 10,732 on Saturday, down 2.1 percent from the previous day, are also not considered an accurate assessment of how widespread there is COVID-19 right now. 43 new deaths were reported in the latest figures.
Here’s the latest update on some other data points.
HOSPITALIZATIONS BY VACCINATION STATUS
TO Star data analysis shows that unvaccinated people have been admitted to the ICU at five times the rate and to the hospital, overall, twice as often as people who have been fully vaccinated.
Due to the strong uptake of vaccines in Ontario, fully vaccinated people represent a large percentage of the general population. That means they would logically represent a higher percentage of people in the hospital when looking at the raw numbers.
Given the prevalence of the Omicron variant in Ontario, breakthrough infections among fully vaccinated people are common, but early data from multiple studies around the world suggest that symptoms are milder and serious complications are rarer than in earlier stages of infection. the pandemic.
The province cautions that due to the way the data is collected, hospitalization numbers by vaccination status may not match the broader hospital data reported on any given day.
Due to incomplete reporting on weekends and holidays, immunization status data for hospital and ICU admissions is not updated on Sunday, Monday, and the day after holidays.
VACCINES
The province says that 11,530,464 people have completed their vaccinations, meaning they have received two doses.
That equates to about 82.3 percent of the eligible population age five and older, and the equivalent of 78.4 percent of the total population, including those not yet eligible for the vaccine.
The province says 5,440,984 people have received three doses of a Health Canada-approved vaccine.
According to the Star Vaccine Tracker, 12,346,218 people in Ontario have received at least one vaccine. That equates to about 88.1 percent of the eligible population age five and older and the equivalent of 84 percent of the total population, including those not yet eligible for the vaccine.
Ontario has administered 157,357 vaccine doses since your last daily update, with 29,337,677 vaccines administered in total as of 8:00 p.m.
COVID IN LONG-TERM CARE
Meanwhile, nine more long-term care residents have died for a total of 3,893 since the pandemic began. in the latest report released by the province.
Ontario reports 15 more long-term care homes in outbreak, for a total of 326 or 52.1 percent of LTC homes in the province.
These data are self-reported by long-term care homes to the Ministry of Long-Term Care. Daily case and death figures may not immediately match figures released by local public health units due to delays in reporting time.
Reference-www.thestar.com