P.E.I. hospitals ‘weather the storm,’ but preparing for more COVID trouble – CBC

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May 19, 2022

P.E.I. hospitals appear to be through the worst of the recent Omicron wave of COVID-19, says Health P.E.I. CEO Dr. Michael Gardam.

The province lifted most public health restrictions on April 6, and the remaining major one — the mask mandate — was lifted a month later.

From research and his own personal experience, Gardam knew lifting restrictions would lead to more cases.

“I’ve witnessed that in Ontario six times,” he said. “Every time the government relaxed restrictions the hospitalizations two weeks later started to go up. So that’s entirely predictable.”

But he said the question is whether the health-care system can handle that stress. In P.E.I.’s case this spring, he said, it did.

“So far in P.E.I. I’ve been incredibly pleasantly surprised to see that we’ve done really well through all of this,” said Gardam.

P.E.I. hospitals ‘weather the storm,’ but preparing for more COVID trouble – CBC

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