Latest B.C. COVID-19 data appears to show a rise in ICU patients – CBC

59 more deaths reported last week in people who’ve tested positive for the novel coronavirus

May 12, 2022

Another 59 people died in B.C. last week after testing positive for COVID-19, while the number of patients in intensive care with the disease appears to have surged, according to the province’s latest reports on the pandemic.

As of Thursday, 596 people are in hospital with the novel coronavirus, including 54 in intensive care, according to the B.C. COVID-19 dashboard.

That would represent an increase of eight per cent in overall hospitalizations from the numbers last Thursday, when the province reported 550 people in hospital. The number of patients in ICU is up 38 per cent from 39 a week ago.

But all of the figures released by the province are preliminary, and making comparisons from week to week has become difficult.

Under B.C.’s current system for reporting COVID-19 data, numbers that are released for any given week will be retroactively adjusted and often change significantly by the time the next reports are released.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-briefing-may-12-1.6451632