Ontario could see up to 600 ICU admissions during 6th wave of COVID-19: Moore

COVID-19 pandemic, the province’s top doctor said.Moore made the comments during a press conference on Monday, but Ontario Health has assured him that the province’s hospitals have the capacity to “care for all Ontarians.” University Health Network reports staffing ‘challenge’ as Ontario battles 6th wave of COVID “I’ll be straightforward,” he said. “It’s anticipated that we could have as high as 600 people back in the intensive care unit at the peak of this, but they have assured us that we can provide care to those individuals.”On May 1, 2021, the province reported 900 people were receiving care in an intensive care unit, marking the highest number of ICU admissions since the pandemic began.The ICU admissions peaked just weeks before the first COVID-19 vaccine dose eligibility was expanded to everyone 18 and older in the province.Hospital admissions peaked during the fifth wave of the pandemic on Jan.

25, 2022, at 626, despite over 11.6 million members of the public having received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.Speaking to reporters Monday, Moore said he is “concerned about health care workers,” adding that absences due to illness are “increasing.”“Clearly, we have to monitor that,” he said.“Ontario Health is monitoring that very closely for us.

We’re looking at the safest plans of returning workers at day five with negative testing — either through RAT or PCR — if their symptoms have completely resolved, but I do agree that’s an ongoing persistent issue.”He said he hopes all healthcare workers have maintained the “highest level of immunization that they can,” and are “maintaining masking when they’re in public spaces as well, because they’re so essential to us.” Ontario COVID numbers: 1,090 people in hospital, 184.