A new daily increase in COVID-19 patients admitted into critical care this week is a spike not seen in Ontario since June, according to new data obtained by CBC News. 0:58The latest available one-day tally for Ontario intensive care units (ICUs) showed eight new patients across the province by end-of-day Wednesday. Those figures come from a Thursday morning report prepared by Critical Care Services Ontario (CCSO), which is distributed daily to critical care stakeholders and shows the most up-to-date numbers provided directly by intensive care units across the province. On Thursday, Ontario's chief medical officer of health acknowledged the province's hospital system is 'starting to get impacted' by rising numbers of COVID-19 cases. "And it takes time for those new cases to turn into hospitalizations, and for those hospitalizations to turn into critical care admissions, and for critical care admissions to lead to death."

Source: CBC News October 09, 2020 07:52 UTC