Try refreshing your browser, or 'Surging like absolute crazy': Ontario hospitals 'pray' they don't reach last-resort stage in third wave Back to video Staged withdrawals of life-support from people with low chances of survival are not part of a 32-page emergency triage protocol that would be enacted should Ontario ICU’s become saturated. As of midnight Monday, 1,892 people were in intensive care in Ontario hospitals, roughly a third — 623 — with COVID. Photo by Luke Hendry/Postmedia/File In Ontario, “we’re moving patients like absolute crazy; we’re surging like absolute crazy,” one critical care specialist said. Ontario quietly issued emergency orders last week allowing hospitals to transfer patients to other hospitals, if needed, without their consent. “About one-third of all our ICU beds are committed to either active or recovering COVID patients,” Goldberg said in an email.

Source: National Post April 14, 2021 09:56 UTC