The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

According to the CBC article, 30 beds in the region are being used for COVID-19. However, as of this morning the region is reporting only 19 total hospitalizations, including non-ICU. So something doesn't match here.

Unless patients from other regions are being brought to ICU here?

That sounds like a good guess. Some places would have only a handful of ICU beds for the entire county, and it would be routine to transfer patients to Hamilton or GRH if they need ICU. But I wonder if we would have received a dozen of those already.

Right. And surely not all hospitalizations are in the ICU.

But I think I just figured out par of the answer: it's Waterloo-Wellington. CBC's 42% is based on 71 beds, but I believe there are at least 91 (28 in GRH, 29 in St Mary's, 12 in Cambridge and 22 in Guelph), which would take the percentage to 33%.

But Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph reports 26 cases, of whom only two are hospitalized, and only one in ICU. So that's only 21 hospitalized in Waterloo-Wellington, and 20 or less in ICU. So it's still not the whole answer.