The data shows there are 33 patients currently on ventilators in the Central West region, but the hospitals within that area only had 26 machines. The data does not include how many ventilators the hospitals have added in response to COVID-19. The hospitals — including William Osler Health System’s facilities in Etobicoke and Brampton, and Headwaters Health Care Centre in Orangeville — did not respond to questions about their current ventilator capacities by deadline. Another 165 patients on ventilators had suspected cases of COVID-19, according to provincial data from April 1. Todd Coleman, an epidemiologist and assistant professor in health sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, told the Star the ever-decreasing baseline critical care capacity worries him.

Source: thestar April 03, 2020 01:27 UTC