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COVID-19: Doctor expects Manitoba to ‘blow by’ previous ICU high as numbers climb

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COVID-19 pandemic.Intensive care physician and infectious disease specialist Dr. Anand Kumar says the height of the second wave was 72 COVID-19 patients in the ICU.

And he’s expecting the third wave to surpass that number easily.“The numbers we are going to see in the next two to three weeks … we’re going to blow by our previous high,” Kumar said.Thursday’s numbers showed out of 185 people in hospital, 52 were in the ICU.Kumar worries nurses are going to be hit hard by this latest and potentially greatest wave.

He says there are enough ventilators and spaces for beds, but nursing is the limiting factor.“We need to try and increase capacity as much as we can, and that’s going to mean in the very near future redeploying everybody who has ICU.

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