Ontario Reports Single Day Record for ICU Admissions

Ontario reports that 477 people in the ICU due to COVID-19 and 3,220 in the hospital overall have tested positive for COVID-19, according to its latest report released Tuesday morning.

According to the Ontario Hospital Association, Critical Care Services Ontario (CCSO) says 80 new adult admissions Monday is the highest single-day number since the start of the pandemic. The CCSO reports that of the 477 people in ICU for COVID, 465 of them are adults.

On Monday, Ontario reported 438 people in the ICU and 2,467 in the hospital.

The numbers represent an 8.9 percent increase in the COVID-19 ICU count and a 30.5 percent increase in hospitalizations overall. Twenty-two percent of the province’s 2,343 adult ICU beds are still available for new patients.

Provincial figures for general hospitalizations should be used with caution as a factor in determining the severity of COVID-19 cases because they include people who have tested positive but are not hospitalized as a direct result of the virus. In some cases, individual hospitals have said that nearly 50 percent of people who tested positive were not admitted due to COVID.

Given new provincial regulations on testing that went into effect on December 31, 2021, the case counts, reported in 7951 on Tuesday, down 18 percent from the day before, are not considered an accurate assessment of how widespread. is COVID-19 right now. 21 new deaths were reported in the latest figures.

HOSPITALIZATIONS BY VACCINATION STATUS

TO Star data analysis shows that unvaccinated people have been admitted to the ICU at a rate four times higher and to the hospital overall at two times higher than people who have been fully vaccinated.

Due to the strong acceptance of vaccines in Ontario, fully vaccinated people make up 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 more rare than in earlier stages of 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 reports for weekends and holidays, vaccination status data for hospital and ICU admissions is not updated on Sunday, Monday, and the day after holidays.

VACCINES

The province says 11,482,911 people have completed their vaccinations, meaning they have received two doses.

That works out to about 81.9 percent of the eligible population ages five and older, and the equivalent of 78.1 percent of the total population, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine.

The province says 4,894,431 people have received three doses of a Health Canada approved vaccine.

According to Star’s vaccine tracker, 12,296,949 people in Ontario have received at least one vaccine. That works out to about 87.7 percent of the eligible population ages five and older and the equivalent of 83.7 percent of the total population, including those who are not yet eligible for the vaccine.

Ontario has administered 141,693 vaccine doses since your last daily update, with 28,693,247 vaccines administered in total until 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday.

COVID IN LONG-TERM CARE

Meanwhile, the province reports that there are no new deaths in long-term care, so the number of deceased residents remains at 3,857. in the latest report released by the province.

Ontario reports two more long-term care homes outbreak for a total of 259 or 41.4 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 the figures published by local public health units due to delays in reporting time.