TORONTO – The number of people covered with Covid-19 in hospitals and intensive care units across Ontario is still decreasing. Today the total was 1,038 patients, therefore a further decrease compared to the 1,056 on Sunday (data were not provided on Monday, Family Day holiday). The last time the province had reported fewer than 1,038 people at hospital with the virus was on December 30, 2021, when there were 965 hospitalized.

The number of people in Ontario’s intensive care units is also steadily declining: today it was 319, up from 324 on Sunday. Moreover, not all of these people ended up in hospital because of the virus: as regards the hospitalized in ordinary Covid wards, only 50% are there for the coronavirus, while the remaining 50% were hospitalized for other reasons and resulted positive at the hospital, therefore they are in fact asymptomatic at Covid-19, having discovered that they got it only after being hospitalized for other reasons.

The percentage changes in intensive care, where instead 80% of the hospitalized are in the ICU there for Covid-19 and 20% for other reasons (albeit positive).

Regarding the vaccination status of the hospitalized, 100 of the people in intensive care are fully vaccinated, 90 are not vaccinated and 10 are intended vaccinated, while the remaining 119 have an unknown vaccination status. However, according to the experts of the Ontario Science Table, the “parity” between vaccinated and unvaccinated hospitalized in intensive care depends on the fact that the people vaccinated in Canada is now almost all (89% over 5 years of age had at least one dose, 84% two and 49% three) and therefore it is inevitable that in a mass like this there is someone who ends up in intensive care. Therefore, in proportion, the number of unvaccinated people admitted to intensive care is enormous if we take into account the fact that the unvaccinated, out of the total population, are very few. Based on this proportion, people who have been fully vaccinated with at least two doses are 83.7% less likely to end up in hospital and 92.2% less likely to end up in the ICU, according to the Ontario Science Table, compared to all unvaccinated people.

Another 9 deaths were recorded today, in Ontario, in addition to the 15 on Monday, reported only today. The total victims of Covid-19 in Ontario, since the beginning of the pandemic, are therefore sold at 12,288.

As regards the infections, today 1,282 were reported on the basis of the few swabs (being reserved only for the “at risk” categories) carried out: 15,365, with a positivity rate of 6.9%, down compared to that of the previous days. The last time the province’s positivity rate was so low was on December 15, 2021, when it was 6%.

The new cases were recorded today mainly in the Greater Toronto Area: 214 in Toronto, 89 in the Peel region, 67 in the York region, 57 in the Durham region and 27 in the Halton region. 103 new cases were also reported in Ottawa, while all other areas recorded fewer than 100 new cases. 13 cases among residents and 31 cases among staff of long-term care facilities in Ontario: 101 nursing homes are affected by an outbreak. In total, there are now 19,984 active and known cases in Ontario.

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