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Senior Sask. doctor says growing number of younger COVID patients in ICU makes her jaw drop
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Guy Quenneville · CBC News · Posted: Apr 09, 2021 10:53 AM CT | Last Updated: April 9
Dr. Susan Shaw, the chief medical officer for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, works in intensive care wards. (CBC News)

The proportion of relatively younger Saskatchewan COVID-19 patients under intensive care in Regina has grown at an alarming rate in recent days, says the province's chief medical officer.

Dr. Susan Shaw of the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) tweeted new intensive care statistics for the city's hospitals on Friday morning, following a virtual town hall attended by SHA physicians on Thursday night.

Up-to-date statistics about the COVID-19 situation in Saskatchewan are usually shared among doctors during those sessions and eventually posted online by the SHA.

"I work in our ICUs. I follow our numbers throughout each and every day. I know we are seeing younger people admitted to ICU due to #COVID19SK. And this graph still made my jaw drop," Shaw's post read.




Shaw included a slide from Thursday night's town hall presentation that broke down Regina's daily count of COVID-19 patients under intensive care by age group from early March to April 8.

It showed a considerable bump in the number of patients aged 40 to 59 (shown in orange bars) compared to other age groups, as well as an uptick in patients aged 20 to 39 (blue bars).

The findings come as cities like Regina face a rising tide of COVID-19 variants, which have been shown to be more transmissible among young people compared to the regular strain of COVID-19.

As of Thursday, 206 Saskatchewan people were hospitalized with COVID-19 across the province, including 41 in ICUs. More than half of the ICU patients, 25, were in the Regina area.

Health Minister Paul Merriman said Thursday that while Regina ICUs are at capacity, there remains room to send patients to Saskatoon if needed.

Earlier this week, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, shared slides of his own at a COVID-19 news conference he co-hosted with Merriman. The slides covered the first quarter of 2021 only.

One slide showed that overall hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Saskatchewan decreased from January to March.
(Government of Saskatchewan)

Alex Wong, an infectious diseases specialist and practising physician at Regina General Hospital, said context was important when looking at that slide.

"[There's] no question that the data is accurate, but it's misleading if you take it at face value," Wong said.

"The majority of the hospitalizations right now are in one place [Regina]. They are not spread out throughout the province. We have never surged like this in [Regina], and if we're still trending upwards in terms of cases here, the rest of the province is going to be in big trouble when it hits everywhere else."

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Wong said the higher hospitalization numbers in January were distributed evenly across the province.

"Central and northern Saskatchewan haven't even begun to feel this," Wong said. "It would be more meaningful to show [Regina] hospitalizations only as a way to understand what the rest of the province is truly in for."

Prevention is key, Shaw says

Shaw also had a message for people.

"We can make COVID-19 pneumonia a preventable disease," she tweeted. "There is no cure better than prevention."

At the news conference earlier this week, Moe said, "the only strategy through the pandemic is vaccines."

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"He also said because the Americans are getting more people vaccinated the daily case counts in Arizona are around 5-600 hundred"

Vaccines DO NOT prevent Covid infections, might reduce severity, They make your immunity create antibodies in theory, just like the immunity a recovered person has. AND you can still spread to others...just like a re-infected recovered person, accomplishes not much. BUT long term, trials will be over in 2022.

So Case you would have gladly stayed in Roatan at the beginning of the pandemic?

There were no cases there till august
China had cases flying into Canada every day , FFS

[Hamloc]

Chuck2 in Australia incoming travellers early in the pandemic were subject to an enforced and monitored 14 day quarantine, how long did that take to happen in Canada?

[chuckChuck]

So Case you would have gladly stayed in Roatan at the beginning of the pandemic?

Yea by stopping international incoming traffic while numb nuts was kissing chinas ass

[chuckChuck]

Governments who had more control over domestic vaccine production have a big advantage. Canada gave up that capacity long ago. But it will be brought back quickly.

In the middle of the largest vaccination campaign in history, you don't think the competition for vaccines might make it hard to get enough vaccines?

Based on the comments some posters would have supported no measures to reduce transmission. That would have been fun.

Our friends in Australia did the exact opposite and knocked the pandemic down and reopened a lot of their economy already. But posters don't want to believe we could have done a better job like Australia.

[Hamloc]

Phoned a neighbour last night, hadn’t talked to him for a few months, turned out he was in Arizona. Him and his wife were apparently spending a month there. I found it interesting that he was able to set up his appointments to be vaccinated before he left Canada. He will receive both Pfizer shots 3 weeks apart while he is there. He also said because the Americans are getting more people vaccinated the daily case counts in Arizona are around 5-600 hundred, Phoenix alone has as many people as Alberta. So he was quite happy to be there. It certainly illustrates how truly incompetent our Canadian government is and yet many people are willing to vote Justin Trudeau back in, hard to fathom from my perspective!!

[parsley]

Everyone knows the virus panic has been hyped. Dragged out. It’s not even technically a pandemic anymore, it’s now scientifically deemed an epidemic.

Q: So why the push to keep it and centre?

A. Vaccine passports.

That’s what communists have been after since DayOne. Vaccine passports.

All your personal data will be owned by communists. And they will use it for coercion. For distributing wealth to those who will spread more communism. For DNA identity. For location. For spying. Blackmail.

And China will be front and center.

Put your foot down, folks.

[bobofthenorth]

Saskatchewan has consistently been the best place to live through this China Flu BS if your goal was to live. We have the highest survival rate in Canada and the lowest impediments to living our lives. I'm not putting that all on Scott - we're blessed with a lot of wide open space which has surely helped. But Scott & Dr. Shahab have had the courage to ignore the media experts. I'm always a proud Saskatchewanian but never more so than the last year. Scott also does a pretty good job of regularly calling Skippy out for his (numerous) failures on this file and others.

Something that I find hilarious is that the so-called "leader" of the Dippers is apparently a Doctor. But he might as well be a garbage collector for all the credibility he has had with anyone - the public, the medical community, the media. I hope the Dippers make him Dear Leader for Life.