Some more doom & gloom news, both federal and provincial public health's are saying it's going to get worse before it gets better.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fed...urge-1.6315123
Quote:
New modelling released today by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) suggests the highly transmissible Omicron variant will push hospital admissions to "extremely high levels" in the coming weeks as case counts reach levels never before seen in this country.
While there is a lot of uncertainty about how many new infections are being reported each day due to ongoing COVID-19 testing constraints, PHAC said the current test positivity rate suggests the variant is running rampant and there will be "several weeks of very intense activity expected to come."
Nationally, the positivity rate is a stunning 28 per cent. That means more than one in four tests for the virus are coming back positive — nearly five times higher than the rate at any other point in the pandemic.
While PHAC said Omicron is likely less severe than past variants — the risk of hospitalization is lower than with the Delta variant, for example — the sheer number of new infections means more people will be susceptible to severe outcomes, including hospitalization and death.
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This is what I've been saying before, yes cases are milder, but there's just so much more. Like, a smaller percentage of a larger number is still a large number.
I know Hondaracer et al are all "well if nobody lives past 70 then we'd have no deaths or ICU", which is macabre but true, but then we'd also have no grandparents.............or MG1...