The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

While we do have a lot of cases locally, our hospitalization rates are pretty low which is great. We only have 23 hospitalized (9 of them being in the ICU) for this disease. I don't know whether or not this number includes the people hospitalized at GRH Freeport Site (since their Covid-19 unit was only holding people who weren't severely ill) or just GRH Downtown Site, St Mary's and Cambridge Memorial.

For now. Unfortunately hospitalizations are a lagging indicator.

Indeed, and as far as I am aware, the numbers are only spiking hard in the past week...it often takes that long for people to get to the point that they need to be hospitalized. I have no doubt that medical staff are bracing for the next few weeks...