Fact Checking AHS CEO Dr. Verna Yiu on ICU Beds
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As of early afternoon, there are 310 Albertans in ICU, of which 226 have COID19. We have never, ever had that number of total patients in ICu before, never with the prior waves, and never in the history of this province.
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As of early afternoon, there are 310 Albertans in ICU, of which 226 patients have COVID-19.
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We have never, ever had that number of total patients in ICU before,
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never with the prior waves, and never in the history of this province.
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There are 310 Albertans in ICU, never with the prior waves, and never in the history of this province.
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There are 310 Albertans in ICU, never with the prior waves, and never in the history of this province.
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We are transferring more patients out of zones to zones where there is additional critical care capacity,
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and every day our teams are focused on adding more critical care capacity.
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As of noon today, we have 350 ICU beds across the province, which keeps our ICU capacity at 89%.
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We have added 177 ICU surge spaces, which means that we have more than doubled our baseline of ICU beds.
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And without those additional beds, our capacity would be at 179%.
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