The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units has climbed above 200 for the first time in more than a month.
While wastewater surveillance data is increasingly suggesting that community transmission may have plateaued at around 100,000 new cases a day, hospitalizations are a considered a lagging indicator and could continue to rise in the short term.
“If you look at out wastewater surveillance it shows very early, early signs that is either plateauing or going down in many parts of the province. That is obviously a very positive sign. But you want to see that trend continue before you get confident that we are working our way out of this wave,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch told CP24 on Monday. “I think we always have to be careful, you can’t have a tonne of confidence in the COVID era about how things are going.
Speaking with CP24, Bogoch said that he anticipates that hospitalizations will continue to rise “for at least the next week or so.”