Ontario breaks record with 2,472 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, 338 in ICU
More than 2,400 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, marking a new record for hospitalizations throughout the pandemic.
The Ministry of Health says 2,472 patients are in Ontario hospitals with the virus, up from 2,279 yesterday and breathing the previous record of 2,360 hospitalizations on Apr. 20, 2021.
There are 11,899 new cases of #COVID19.
Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 7, 2022
Ontario’s COVID-19 case counts are unreliable, so these metrics will tell us when Omicron wanes
As the Omicron variant sweeps through Ontario at a rate never before seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly everyone wants to know when we’ll be on the other side of this wave.
But now, restrictions to PCR testing criteria mean case numbers no longer present an accurate picture of the spread of the virus — and while case counts alone were never a perfect metric, they did provide the simplest window for people to understand what was happening in their region.
