Coronavirus

[wetnose]

Projections de l’INESSS | Plus de 3000 hospitalisations d’ici 10 jours

Plus de 3000 lits occupés. Plus de 400 patients aux soins intensifs. Les hôpitaux québécois compteront sous peu davantage de patients atteints de la COVID-19 qu’à tout autre moment de la pandémie.

www.lapresse.ca

The National Institute of Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) presented its most recent projections on the impact of the pandemic in Quebec on Thursday.
He anticipates that the milestone of 3,000 beds occupied by patients with COVID-19 will be crossed around January 16.

In addition, Quebec should cross the threshold of 400 intensive care patients at the same time. In both cases, it is significantly beyond level 3 of designated beds for COVID-19.
Currently, 1953 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized in Quebec, including 207 in intensive care.
Normally, at level 3, only 1,252 beds are expected to be occupied by COVID-19 patients.

Here's the discussion every Canadian should be having after all this shit is over: we need to fix the medical system from top to bottom.

It’s easy to point fingers at the Legault government, but the truth is we got here after 30+ years of neglect from all levels of government. Generations of Canadians voted in politicians who starved and stripped the medical system down to its bones.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS?locations=CA

Population was just over 25 million in 1984. We had 6.8 beds per 1000 people, so about 170,000 beds.

Population is now 38 million people in 2020. 2.5 beds per 1000 people so 95,000 beds. (Comparatively: Japan 13, Germany 8, France 6).

To a certain extent, the reduction was driven by improvements in medicine & practices but obviously we’ve gone too far. If we don't want to go the American route - higher prices, lower accessibility & unrestrained greed, then we need to vote in politicians who will do what needs to be done.

 

[Like_It_Hot]

Healthcares were defunded by the Canadian federal governments. When public healthcare were put in place, it was a 50% financial contribution from the federal government and a 50% contribution from the provinces. Now 77% of the cost is paid by the provinces and only 23% by the central federal government. That also contributed to the degradation of the service. With COVID and specially Omicron, more people gets in the hospitals than those going out, cause those patients needs at least a few hospitalization days. Those in ICU may be there for one week, sometime more.

 

[Francoquart]

Please tell us how you got covid 3 times and are you certain that one or more times wasn`t a bad cold or the seasonal flu?
Did you test during (positive) and after(negative) each time. Maybe you had long covid that didn`t go completely away.
What type of work or social situation would place you into such a risky environment ? Besides being not vaccinated did you take any caution?

The first time was at the very beginning of the wave. This was the longest and the most tiresome. The last one was in December, with the vaccination wave in schools. I tested positive on the first, the second i just assumed since it had almost similar symptoms than the first. The last one we all tested positive on the self test kit my son brought from school. My mother also got it in the first wave. I did test negative the first time. The rules was to stay home until you test negative. I own a grocery store, and i am always in contact with employees and clients, and also hobbying. Many of my friends also got it. How many without symptoms got it, it is impossible to know. I called and asked them why should I be vaccinated, they claim the vaccine is better than Natural immunity. Go figure, I was convinced on the spot.

 

[cloudsurf]

My friend works at Urgence Sante as a medic. He handles covid patients on an almost daily basis yet he has not caught covid or even the flu.
He is fully vaxxed including boosted, gets tested regularly and wears an N95 mask.

 

[Francoquart]

My friend works at Urgence Sante as a medic. He handles covid patients on an almost daily basis yet he has not caught covid or even the flu.
He is fully vaxxed including boosted, gets tested regularly and wears an N95 mask.

My brother never had it too. He is 35, he was with us when we caught it, took care of my mom, is very active socially. Not vaccinated though. Half of my staff got it lately, and 90 percent of them are vaccinated. I am certain that the counting that was being done is under representative of the numbers that got the COVID. If these are taken into account, we will find that the hospitalization rate is much lower, and yet our hospitals are over loaded. This administration did not anticipate anything, they are lazy, and just copy other European countries measures. It was a certainty that new variants are coming, they should have prepared instead of just focusing on Vaccination. What king of planning is it to put all your eggs in one basket? A failed plan in my opinion. To make things worse, they are dividing the people so that they can get away with it. I agree with wetnose that the debate should mostly focus on WHY was this administration taken by such surprise, and why they did not account for such a scenario. They had the time and the information to act on.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Connecticut Covid Positivity Rate at 23.68%; Hospitalizations Near Record High

Connecticut’s COVID positivity rate remains above 20% as hospitalizations climb toward record high

Since Friday, an additional 31,405 COVID cases were discovered in 132,606 tests for a...

www.nhregister.com

 

[Nutsinho]

This covid business is here to stay, 90% of the population is all in with the 24hr media fear porn.

Biden signs $137 million deal with German pharmaceutical company for COVID test strip factory that will take THREE YEARS to build and will start producing 83.3 million tests a month in late 2024 at the earliest​

Biden's $137M deal for COVID test factory will be done in THREE YEARS

'Construction is expected to begin the second half of 2022,' a MilliporeSigma spokesperson told DailyMail.com. 'We estimate that the facility will be capable... in the latter part of 2024.'

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Nutsinho]

In January 2015 there were 22 deaths per day during the flu season, more than we have now.

22 décès par jour causés par la grippe en janvier dernier

L’inefficacité du vaccin, la virulence de la souche de grippe ainsi que le temps très froid ont fait grimper le nombre de victimes.

www.journaldemontreal.com

 

[EagerBeaver]

For those of you who have sought to deliberately catch Omicron in order to "get it over with", here is some medical advice to call off that agenda:

5 reasons you should not deliberately catch Omicron to 'get it over with' | CNN

People keep talking about getting infected with a "mild" case of Omicron on purpose. Experts weigh in on why that's not a good idea.

www.cnn.com

 

[EagerBeaver]

Anti-vaccination advocate propounds alternative of drinking one's own urine:

Anti-vax leader urges people to drink urine instead of vaccine in latest conspiracy

The conspiracy theorist has been traveling the country threatening to arrest Democratic state governors

www.independent.co.uk

 

[gaby]

QUÉBEC....ARRUDA offre sa démission et LEGAULT l'accepte....il était évident que le DIRECTEUR de la Santé Publique ne faisait plus l'unanimité et ses décisions étaient de plus en plus questionnées et critiquées....ne l'aura pas eu facile dans une situation/position
extrêmement difficile ou chacune de ses décisions ---prise en fonction de l'intérêt public---était scrutée à la loupe.....il a fait de son mieux MAIS il était temps de passer la rondelle à quelqu'un d'autre soit Luc Boileau à qui l'on va souhaiter une bonne gestion de cette
crise interminable.....et merci HORACIO.

 

[gaby]

Sondage LÉGER...ce jour....65% des Québécois appuient les mesures sanitaires....c'est important MAIS une baisse de 14% par rapport à Novembre dernier.....il y a là un puissant message vis-a-vis LEGAULT que la population accepte difficilement les mesures
draconiennes prises récemment et a l'impression que le gouvernement n'est pas en contrôle......la lune de miel s'effrite ...va dorénavant avoir la vie moins facile.

 

[cloudsurf]

Anti-vaccination advocate propounds alternative of drinking one's own urine:

Anti-vax leader urges people to drink urine instead of vaccine in latest conspiracy

The conspiracy theorist has been traveling the country threatening to arrest Democratic state governors

www.independent.co.uk

What about drinking squirt juice mixed with vodka ....I drink plenty of that and haven`t had covid yet although in all honesty I`m also fully vaxxed.

 

[Womaniser]

In January 2015 there were 22 deaths per day during the flu season, more than we have now.

22 décès par jour causés par la grippe en janvier dernier

L’inefficacité du vaccin, la virulence de la souche de grippe ainsi que le temps très froid ont fait grimper le nombre de victimes.

www.journaldemontreal.com

The explanation is clear, the vaccin had 0% efficiency. What is the purpose of that post ?

 

[wetnose]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1480934998626734083

ICU @ 255, up from 185 from 1 week ago, an increase of 37%. A little bit of good news since the pace of increases has slowed.

 

[gaby]

Ouin.....évidemment ne plus se fier aux nouveaux cas--le dépistage étant maintenant réservé à des groupes spéciaux...MAIS 62 décès...wow +188 hospitalisations +7 soins intensifs...pour un total de 255 qui nous préparent malheureusement à d'autres
nombreux décès à venir.....de la grosse job attend le nouveau DIRECTEUR de la santé publique.

 

[Womaniser]

Ouin.....évidemment ne plus se fier aux nouveaux cas--le dépistage étant maintenant réservé à des groupes spéciaux...MAIS 62 décès...wow +188 hospitalisations +7 soins intensifs...pour un total de 255 qui nous préparent malheureusement à d'autres
nombreux décès à venir.....de la grosse job attend le nouveau DIRECTEUR de la santé publique.

M. Legault just told that the non-vaccinated will have to pay a tax surcharge.
The details are discussed.
I think other countries have annouced the same dispositions.

 

[cloudsurf]

M. Legault just told that the non-vaccinated will have to pay a tax surcharge.
The details are discussed.
I think other countries have annouced the same dispositions.

Good they should pay for the harm they are doing. Their selfish and un-proven beliefs are causing harm to the health of the majority and the economy.
And good riddance to that incompetent clown Arruda.

 

[gaby]

Yep true..plus he said.....a significative one ....pour les faire assumer leur large part de responsabilité dans l'engorgement de nos hôpitaux notamment aux soins intensifs occupés par 50% de non-vaccinés....incroyable....it's a fair decision.

 

[gaby]

Le DR. BOILEAU est nommé Directeur national de la santé publique par intérim.....mais pourrait devenir permanent.....j'aimerais beaucoup que la candidature du DR .Mylène Drouin---responsable de la santé publique à Montréal--soit considérée...c'est une femme
solide, crédible et qui sait résister au politique....ce serait une excellente candidate....quand on peut gérer Montréal on est sûrement en mesure de gérer le Québec.