COVID-19 hospitalizations, cases rise in latest data haul
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This article was published 28/04/2022 (1408 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The province released its latest COVID-19 data for cases, hospitalizations and deaths, but one Brandon physician cautions the statistics can’t be fully trusted.
The provincial government stopped collecting data on rapid tests and closed its COVID testing sites earlier this month. It’s difficult to ascertain how many people actually have COVID, said Dr. Diarmuid (Derry) Decter. Any case analysis in the province needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
“Anything medical personnel say about this is more likely to be true,” he said. “The data [from the government] is massively underreported. If it shows anything, it is how damaged our health-care system is.”
According to the weekly report from Manitoba public health, 13 people died from the virus during the week of April 17-23. This isn’t a big surprise, Decter said, as there is always a lag from people being infected and dying from COVID.
The number of Manitobans who have died from COVID-19 is 1,792.
In terms of hospitalizations, 188 COVID patients were admitted to hospital for the week of April 17-23. That’s an increase from four patients from the previous week.
There were also 12 COVID patients admitted to intensive care wards for that week, a drop of 10 from the week ending April 16, when there were 22.
The data showed 1,436 new cases for the week, a 20 per cent jump from the previous week.
Decter reiterated previous comments that the pandemic demonstrated how unprepared Manitoba’s medical system was for a public health crisis.
Whether it was the virus itself, or mistakes in administration, or both, remains to be investigated.
“What remains for me is it shows how badly hollowed out the system was and how the pandemic continues to weaken what infrastructure we have,” he said.
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