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I have been a health reporter for more than 20 years. Never before have I heard such anguish, worry and warning coming from #HamOnt intensive care unit doctors - including one who has worked 50 days straight. #COVID19 @TheSpec https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2021/04/22/hamilton-icus-on-a-knife-edge.html
As #HamOnt ICUs sit on a "knifepoint" and mental health resources are brought in to help staff cope with high numbers of younger people on life support, the city reported the highest number of #COVID cases in a single day ever in the #pandemic at 301. https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2021/04/21/pandemic-high-301-new-covid-cases-in-hamilton-on-wednesday.html
"This is an extraordinarily dangerous situation and we have never been anywhere near this kind of threat ever," a hospital leader warned as a surge of GTA #COVID patients transferred here and #HamOnt ICUs significantly expanded for the first time ever. https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2021/04/22/hamilton-icus-on-a-knife-edge.html
The worst is yet to come as #HamOnt #COVID cases are expected to climb until around May 1 and hospitalizations lag two weeks behind.
"Things that we never thought would ever occur are happening in terms of the volumes," said one doctor reports @TheSpec https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2021/04/21/pandemic-high-301-new-covid-cases-in-hamilton-on-wednesday.html
"Things that we never thought would ever occur are happening in terms of the volumes," said one doctor reports @TheSpec https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2021/04/21/pandemic-high-301-new-covid-cases-in-hamilton-on-wednesday.html
One #HamOnt ICU doc's message: “It’s frustrating when ... at your own personal cost you’ve put your blood, sweat and tears into trying to keep people alive, and then you go out and see people not really taking the situation as seriously as they should." https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2021/04/22/hamilton-icus-on-a-knife-edge.html
