Low health-care capacity cost Canada economically amid pandemic
Well that report confirms what a lot of us have been saying all along....it wasn't a handful of Covid patients that strained our ICU beds...it was that they were already strained before the pandemic hit. The lockdown restrictions trying to "flatten the curve" to save the hospitals, collapsed our economy and that shouldn't have happened with so few Covid patients actually being hospitalized.
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The report, titled "Low hospital capacity in Canada: A continued economic risk as Covid becomes endemic," highlights that Canada has one of the worst health-care capacities among developed countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
According to the Global Health Security Index, Canada ranks 41st out of 137 when it comes to capacity.
Canada's health-care capacity ranks among the worst of its peers and is a factor in economic losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a CIBC report.
Canada's capacity was already being strained prior to the pandemic in 2019 -- and has caused Canada to implement more and stricter restrictions than other countries, resulting in less economic activity, according to the report.
COVID-19-related hospitalization per one million of the population in the U.S. and U.K. were four and five times higher than in Canada, respectively, but our system was still pushed to its limits during the second wave of COVID-19 in the fall of 2020, the report said.
"Simply put, we reached capacity at levels that many other countries consider to be acceptable," the report states.
more: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canad...ort/ar-AAP4o5j
