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Publishing date: Feb 17, 2021 • February 17, 2021 • 9 minute read • FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020. Photo by Handout . /via REUTERS
The good news surrounding fewer people with serious cases of COVID-19 in B.C. continued February 12, with the number of patients in intensive care units (ICU) with the virus falling for the eighth . . .
By Glen Korstrom | February 11, 2021, 3:42pm
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The steady decline in people fighting serious COVID-19 infections in B.C. hospitals continued February 11, with six fewer such patients than a day ago. There are now more than 40% fewer people in hospital with COVID-19 infections in B.C. (224) than there were at the end of 2020 (374).
Hospitalizations are a key metric to watch in the fight against the global pandemic because a high priority is keeping a sufficient supply of hospital beds in case there is a sudden spike in serious infections.