Alberta sees record number of ICU admissions as COVID-19 hospitalizations soar

[Spazito]

Alberta hospitals are seeing their highest-ever number of patients being admitted for critical care — and part of the reason they're able to keep up is because of a high number of deaths from COVID-19, says the head of Alberta Health Services (AHS).

Over the past five days, the average number COVID-19 intensive care unit admissions has been over 23 per day, Dr. Verna Yiu, president and CEO of Alberta Health Services, said at a Thursday news conference. There are currently 310 people in ICU across the province, including 226 with COVID-19.

"We have never, ever had that number of total patients in ICU before. Never with the prior waves and never in the history of this province," she said.

"It's tragic that we are only able to keep pace with these sort of numbers because, in part, some of our ICU patients have passed away. And this reality has a deep and lasting impact on our ICU teams."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/record-icu-admissions-covid19-1.6186914

Alberta is in dire straits right now, the Provincial government has asked the Federal government for assistance to transport patients to other hospitals in the Province as well as to other Provinces.

[dem4decades]

1. What are the vaccination numbers there?

[Spazito]

2. Here are the numbers from the government site

as of end of day Sept. 22:

5,896,827 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Alberta

82 percent of 12+ population has received at least one dose (69.8% total population)

73.2 percent of 12+ population fully vaccinated (62.3% total population)

[Tomconroy]

4. It's the unvaxxed there too that are going to the hospital:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-severe-outcomes-covid-vaccination-1.6178449

[Spazito]

5. Yes, it is definitely the unvaccinated causing the ICU hospitalization numbers...

to skyrocket and also those who have died.

[applegrove]

6. 100% of covid patients admitted to the ICU in Alberta today are unvaccinated.

So sad.

[Bev54]

7. So maddening

[applegrove]

8. They are pawns. I feel so sorry for those families. And mad that someone

who needs the ICU for another reason and won't be able to get a bed. That will infuriate me.

[Bev54]

9. Certainly sad for the people who need the ICU for other reasons, makes me drive more

carefully but I am pretty much out of f*cks for the covidiots. The information is available to us all, if they choose to believe their neighbour or youtube or FB friend instead of all of the experts that is putting the rest of us in danger. I see all the misinformation as well but do not choose to live my life based on that.

[Spazito]

10. I feel the same as you...

I am totally done with their excuses, bullying, ridiculous and dangerous behavior. I have not one scintilla of sympathy for those who choose to go unvaccinated and end up in the hospital.

Fully vaccinated people will die because they cannot get care as the beds fill up with people who didn't believe the science until they get sick with covid and then, lo and behold, science is suddenly good.

[Bev54]

11. Yes and it is not like it is not the lead story on every newscast in Canada