Ontario is reporting 244 people in ICU due to COVID-19 and 742 in hospital overall testing positive for COVID-19, according to its latest report released Thursday morning.
Of the people hospitalized, 46 per cent were admitted for COVID-19 and 54 per cent were admitted for other reasons but have since tested positive. For the ICU numbers, 79 per cent were admitted for COVID-19 and 21 per cent were admitted for other reasons but have since tested positive.
Because of Ontario’s strong uptake in vaccines, fully vaccinated people account for a large percentage of the overall population. That means they would logically account for a higher percentage of people in hospital when looking at raw numbers. The province warns that due to the way data is collected its hospitalization by vaccination status numbers may not match broader hospital data as reported on any given day.
That works out to approximately 86.0 per cent of the eligible population five years and older, and the equivalent of 82.0 per cent of the total population, including those not yet eligible for the vaccine.According to the, 12,582,711 people in Ontario have received at least one shot. That works out to approximately 89.8 per cent of the eligible population five years and older and the equivalent of 85.6 per cent of the total population, including those not yet eligible for the vaccine.
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