KITCHENER --
Hospital officials in Waterloo Region are keeping a close eye on ICU admissions as the number of patients in Ontario reached an all-time high Monday.
"It's a troubling picture," St. Mary's General Hospital President Lee Fairclough said.
"We typically see a rise in our own admissions in a pattern of about two weeks after what we start seeing in the GTA."
According to Fairclough, 12 per cent of the people in the ICU at St. Mary's have tested positive for COVID-19. Patients who tested postiive for a variant of concern are two times as likely to end up in the ICU and 1.5 times more likely to die from the disease, according to Fairclough.