COVID-19.The research from two doctors based out of Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital recently published in The Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine looked at the first three months of B.C.’s COVID-19 pandemic.They found a 15-per cent overall decline in 911 calls, and a nine-per cent drop in calls related to critical illness.
Concern growing as more young people in B.C. being hospitalized with COVID-19 “Fifteen per cent is a huge number,” study co-author Dr.
Frank Scheuermeyer, an emergency medicine doctor at St. Paul’s hospital and associate professor at UBC, told Global News.“People didn’t stop getting sick, they just stopped calling 911.