The lock down was supposed to prevent this, not ensure it.
Tens of thousands of medical procedures have been postponed in Ontario, Canada, anticipating a novel coronavirus patient surge that has yet to come, a report from the independent Financial Accountability Office (FAO) found late last month.
Delayed heart surgeries, for example, have already resulted in around 35 deaths, a University Health Network (UHN) report states.
“A report has been released today by UHN with respect to cardiac deaths and it has been estimated that approximately 35 people may have passed away because their surgeries were not performed,” Health Minister Christine Elliott acknowledged last Tuesday, according to Toronto Star.
The same ridiculous situation is happening across the country, including Saskatchewan – with only 13 COVID cases in hospital, the “plan” to resume thousands of postponed “elective” surgeries is still two weeks away.
4 of 22 beds in our small rural hospital are currently being used. There is no C-19 in our town. People are not going to the hospital. Nurse I know says it is the slowest she has seen the hospital in her 12 years there.
When you have a Gap in your normal practice….You have a rusty practitioner…Surgery will be haphazard until up to speed… The worst indicator for an Engineer is a GAP…. Better to have taken an Extension Course, or another method of staying current….Shit moves fast… HR will ask, better to have an answer
Doesn’t the FREE (sic) Canadian healthcare system ALREADY have a critical backlog of surgeries? With these surgeries piling up at a frightening clip … how will Canada ever work through the backlog?
Oh! I know! … Psychic surgeries! It’s so pro-gress-ive … so … spiritual
WTF, will someone start paying attention?
Unsurprisingly, the “cure” is worse than the disease
Although I’d never call tyranny a cure.
I’ll bet the Turd & family, or any of his many clingons who wear his style of socks, will have any difficulty at hospital admittance. Same old story of the plebs standing in line and being told social distance, go home and as many die there. Rules you know. The worst …… knowing that even before this it was still stand in line and wait just much longer now.
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Except, of course, the entirely non-medically necessary world of abortion, which they continue to perform almost everywhere as a priority item.
Yes one just has to look at what are essential services to clearly see government is not serious. Liquor stores, pot stores, abortion, all essential services. And then look at what is not essential; Dentists, Chiropractors, etc. You can’t fix stupid!
If there’s a silver lining to this, at least now canadians will see the folly of relying on government to “protect” them from harm.
Just kidding, canadians (Borealis idiota) will clamour for even more government now, and we are about to get it…good and hard. Stupid is as stupid does.
This is the result of unreasoning fear of infection by the virus. Initially it made sense to be cautious, but as we have progressed through April and into May it is becoming more apparent that the hospitals are more than able to cope with any uptick in admissions due to infections by this virus. They can see statistically that roughly 15 – 20% of people who contract the virus require some hospitalization, and that roughly 5% of those people may require critical care. We think that ventilators are not a good choice now, and other forms of applying oxygen are being used. We can see some other viable treatments available, if still only considered anecdotal. We have a huge pool of untreated people to compare to the treated though, so while anecdotal, if proper recording is carried out it is feasible to consider the cases as studied.
Everywhere around the world we have data being gathered that points to a vulnerable population over 60 years old. Add in some kind of co-morbidity and the threat increases. People under the age of 60 who have no underlying health problem are at a minimal chance of having the virus progress beyond a mild case. The chances of severe cases diminished with age, to the point where people under 19 years old have an infinitesimal chance of a fatal outcome.
It is time to reopen the hospitals, at the very least, to treating all patients. Put some artificial restrictions in place on the economy, allow businesses to reopen with “social distancing” and other things. It is time to stop reporting the case and death counts daily. Government public health officials can maintain observation of their systems and local health authorities can monitor cluster outbreaks hospital use to ensure they are not overwhelmed.
This is the result of unreasoning fear of infection by the virus.
No, this was a case of experts and academics believing their computer models WERE reality.And public policy was based upon them, resulting in similar economic disaster, and policies out of touch with reality, created by the absurd response to the “global warming” BS>
Never fear those 35(and all the others) will count as deaths due to Covid 19.
Trust us ,we are from the government.
Had been hearing the same from friends and family working in Healthcare..
In fact they may have died because of Wuhan virus.
Not of it though.
The rulers will rule covid.
Quite so. We need a good defenestration I say!
Politicians who want to look smart by claiming their policies are “science based” listening to government funded “experts” and their computer models that provide the politicians with the “scientific” cover for their policies.
Tam was a co-chair of a 2006 federal report on pandemic preparedness in the wake of the SARS crisis in Canada,[5] which envisioned a respiratory infection pandemic Wikipedia
Trained as a doctor, she is now a bureaucrat and politician. Detached from the real world.
100% … nailed it.
MADNESS!!!! I made the mistake of commenting on an Edmonton Journal article on this very subject. Was told I was being selfish for wanting to surgeries to open up. Ummm, I don’t need surgery. I do realize, however, that there are many thousands that do.
1 in the Chinook Regional Hospital (In ICU. My guess is they don’t need to be in ICU but much easier to isolate and tend to rather than on a ward) 18 cases in Lethbridge. Only 6 active. Population of 100,000
Very happy to see golfers out today though! (I am not a golfer so can I not be labelled as selfish for being happy that golfers can enjoy their sport?)
At this point it’s VERY IMPORTANT to take this approach with our wardens. “It’s actually good that this virus isn’t as bad as we thought and I’m glad you’re taking action to open things up”. Once we’re back to normal then round them up and shoot them twice.
Two years ago I underwent a green light laser surgery on my prostate. I had already waited 4 weeks for the surgery wearing a catheter draining into a urine bag strapped to my leg. I can only imagine the number of guys who are waiting for that surgery who’ve had a bag of piss strapped to their leg for months now.
The sad thing is no one will answer for what’s happened and nothing will change. The minute the government flip-flopped on the seriousness of the virus Tam and Hajdu should have been replaced. I realize it would have been for optics but those two have zero credibility. A private company would have packaged off the two of them.
The next time a really life threatening pandemic rolls around no one will take it seriously.
Why do viral infections get treated at conventional hospitals? Surely after the last sars/covid scare where 77% were infected at the hospitals, taught our medical experts to not to mix viruses with sick people?
Heads will not roll because anyone who labours under the evidently fatal misconception that socialised medicine treats him like a person and not a number doesn’t really how irrelevant he actually is.
But at least we’re not Americans, right?!
In Victoria, Jubilee is the Covid designated hospital, VGH in the Westshore, is the “other” hospital.
Went for a long walk last night, past VGH, a normally bustling hospital, its parking lot was only 10% in use.
All Health ministers should face criminal charges for gross neglect.
I’ve heard there hasn’t been a covid case in Victoria in 3 weeks. The risk here is insanely low.
Have they listed Covid–19 as the cause of death in these delayed surgeries?
Multivariate Problem. We solved for ICU beds and ventilators.
Was saying to my wife just the other day that were I a hospital manager I would NOT cancel all scheduled surgeries in advance of a possible (model-predicted) surge in WuFlu cases, that may not materialize. If overwhelmed I would cancel the next day or two. I would try to keep all the scheduled procedures in line but maybe pushed put a day or two or three, even a week if necessary. This wholesale cancellation SHOCKED me to the core. This, of course, would not happen in a free market health care system. Blithering idiots.
I’m confused. Elective surgeries cancelled? I thought I was going to have to wait until all this settled down but I had elective surgery yesterday. In and out, same day. Only two people at a time in waiting area, six feet apart, of course. One goes into OR, another comes in to wait. And, while I was waiting, I saw police escorting a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs out of OR. Prisoner surgeries not cancelled either.
At this point anyone who thinks this has not been weaponized in favor of the ruling class is in denial.
said when this started, the communists now have their model, and what bed are the cpc cowards hiding under?
Sadly, heads are not going to roll after this. We cannot defenestrate our heroes. Mind you, I am all for crowdfunding a celebratory banquet for Dr. Tam, the P.M. and Minister Hajdu in Wuhan featuring all you can eat bat.
This is what happens when you pay people to stay home for free.
Of course, they do not understand that they, their children and grandchildren will eventually have to pay in inflated dollars.
Were our healthcare dollars well spent during this event? Did our elected officials earn their salaries during this event? The government controlled media earned their keep in generating the spin, with yet more to do.
I just wonder if any good will come out of this, other than showing how the liberal government will use any disruption to show their totalitarian roots
As predicted the murder suicide rate spike is occurring. A tax lawyer wiped out his family near Sherwood Park and there was a shoot out resulting in death on the highway near Leduc. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Considering the Edmonton area has only had 12 covid deaths and now has 5 murder/suicide deaths…… Sadly they may end the lock down but the murder suicides will continue as many companies won’t reopen for business and many many people will remain unemployed. We got a mosquito off our toe. Sadly we used a howitzer to do it and lost both legs in the process. Bad public policy begotten by relying on experts with poor computer models. We should all hang our heads in shame if we ever supported the lock down.
Hospital Facility Manager here… in my area the 5 hospitals have about 1200 beds. Currently less than 400 are full. Pre-virus we were all running at over 100%.
You could move all the patients into 1 facility and mothball the other 4, instead we sit in empty buildings for the most part putting out full payrolls.
You could put all the covid patients in the Province in one hospital and let the rest of us get back to business, instead we let people die while burning cash by the barrel.
The Minister of Health should be fired, not only for this but allowing the LTC’s to operate with such pitifully low standards.