Dire Scenario for Intensive Care Even if COVID-19 Rate Drops

Dire Scenario for Intensive Care Even if COVID-19 Rate Drops
Beate Sander, the Canada research chair in economics of infectious diseases, is seen in this undated handout photo. Ho/The Canadian Press
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A study by Toronto epidemiologists suggests that Canada’s largest province could run out of intensive care beds and ventilators by late April, even assuming a sharp drop in the current infection rate.

Researchers from the University of Toronto, University Health Network and Sunnybrook Hospital have released a model showing Ontario could run short of machines and space to ventilate very sick patients in just over five weeks.