Intensive Care

• Lakeshore General Hospital unveils new ICU as it struggles with staff shortages, overcrowding

  The Lakeshore General Hospital unveiled its new intensive care unit as it continues to struggle with staffing shortages and issues of overcrowding.

  Canada

  Dec 20, 2022
  
• ‘We were rushed into trauma’: A look inside Canada’s RSV and flu crisis

  Toddler Avery Harper is battling both RSV and the flu. The viral illnesses have hit young patients so hard that children's hospitals across the country have been overwhelmed. 

  Canada

  Dec 2, 2022
  
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• Winnipeg ICU doc says fall COVID bump may not hit as hard, but health system will be affected

  A Winnipeg intensive care doctor on the front lines of the COVID pandemic thinks Manitobans won't be hit too hard by a fall wave of infection, but says health care may struggle.

  Health

  Sep 15, 2022
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• Ontario COVID numbers: 722 people in hospital, 232 in ICUs

  According to the latest data, 20 more deaths were recorded on Saturday, bringing the provincial death toll to 12,247.

  Health

  Mar 12, 2022
• Seven more COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba amid declining hospitalizations

  Seven more Manitobans with COVID-19 have died, public health officials reported Friday, including a woman in her 40s from the Prairie Mountain region.

  Health

  Feb 25, 2022
• Number of COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba continues to rise

  That includes 15 more people who died over the weekend, including 10 on Monday, bringing the province's death toll to 1,562.

  Health

  Jan 31, 2022
• COVID-19: Quebec reports 39 deaths as hospitalizations climb to 1,750

  Quebec reported an additional 14,486 new infections, for a total of 115,626 active cases.

  Canada

  Jan 5, 2022
• COVID-19: Manitoba needs ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown, critical care doctors say

  Winnipeg intensive care doctors say a temporary circuit breaker lockdown is needed as the province grapples with an increasing COVID-19 testing backlog and rising daily case counts

  Health

  Dec 28, 2021
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• No known ICU admissions due to Omicron in Ontario yet, but impact expected: top doctor

  "While the ICU occupancy remains stable, we anticipate in the coming days and weeks, we will start to see a greater impact of Omicron."

  Health

  Dec 21, 2021
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• Severe health outcomes after double vaccination exceedingly rare, but not unexpected, experts say

  Some fully-vaccinated Manitobans are still contracting COVID-19, and in rare instances are ending up in hospitals. Health officials say that's not unexpected.

  Health

  Oct 27, 2021