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Children’s Hospital could begin taking critically ill adult patients as London Health Sciences Centre halts some surgeries and adds more intensive care beds to help overwhelmed Toronto-area hospitals.
LHSC plans to open seven extra intensive care beds in addition to 18 it recently opened at University and Victoria hospitals, chief medical officer Dr. Adam Dukelow said Friday.
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Of the seven new beds, four will be in critical care wards at Victoria Hospital and three will be in the pediatric critical care unit at Children’s Hospital.
LONDON, ONT. The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is reporting 100 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, but also noted more than 140 recoveries. The two-day trend of triple-digit cases follows three days of double-digit increases, but Thursday s numbers are a decrease compared to Wednesday when 128 new cases were reported. Including Wednesday and Thursday, the region has now seen 15 days of triple-digit counts since the beginning of the month. The region now has a total of 9,608 cases, with 8,380 resolved, 1,033 active and 195 deaths. With recoveries out pacing new infections it means the active cases dropped slightly. The number of variant cases has risen to 1,360, with the vast majority being the B.1.1.7 variant that originated in the U.K. Another 217 cases are mutation-positive.
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The fallout of the COVID-19 crisis in the Toronto area is now hitting small Southwestern Ontario cities, which are taking in a surge of out-of-town patients to relieve overwhelmed hospitals in Canada’s largest city.
Hospitals in Stratford, Brantford, Woodstock, St. Thomas, Chatham-Kent and Sarnia are caring for more than two dozen patients transferred from the Greater Toronto Area, in addition to the patients moved to London Health Sciences Centre in recent weeks.
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