We changed all our schedules, our ICU schedules three weeks ago, to be on call“In my centre, we have still a lot of empty beds in the ICU,” said D’Aragon Thursday. We changed all our schedules, our ICU schedules three weeks ago, to be on call. The number has remained at between about 500 and 535 since then – out of a total number of ICU patients that stood at 1,321 on Thursday. Meanwhile, the total number of patients admitted to hospitals does seem to be rising faster in Quebec than the figures for ICUs specifically, he said. An average of about 50 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients a day have been admitted to hospital in the last week and a halfIt has in Ontario, too.

Source: National Post April 11, 2020 17:15 UTC