An Edmonton hospital is readying new surge measures as it braces for Alberta’s COVID-19 intensive care admissions to potentially double in the next two weeks, according to an email obtained by CBC News.
Donalda Dyjur, an executive director at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, sent the email to staff Saturday afternoon, the same day Alberta hit a single-day record of 1,026 new cases.
The hospital is one of 10 in the province grappling with a COVID-19 outbreak.
“Based on this current trend, it is projected that Covid cases will double within the next two weeks if the curve does not flatten,” said Dyjur, addressing hospital ICU admissions.
Keep in mind that there’s just under a 2 week delay between cases rising and a corresponding rise in hospitalizations. So provinces whose hospital beds are quickly filling up haven’t even been hit with hospitalizations from the record numbers of new cases they’ve been experiencing over the last week. The Federal and Provincial governments need to take decisive action ASAP to avoid a worst case scenario
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