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COVID-19 working in a high-risk setting for close to two years, a Hamilton doctor says he feels fortunate to have been vaccinated when the affliction caught up with him in March.Dr. Sunjay Sharma couldn’t believe it when his rapid antigen test turned up positive on the 10th after having followed prevention protocols for years and dodging the affliction during some of the pandemic’s darkest days.“I got home that evening and I wasn’t feeling well.

resume non-urgent surgeries as of Monday due to ongoing pressures from the current COVID-19 wave fuelled by the Omicron variant.Hamilton Health Sciences president Rob MacIsaac didn’t alter the sentiment conveyed in a release last week that claimed high occupancy rates and patient transfers continue to plague the city and put strain on the system.“Hospitals in Hamilton will proceed cautiously with ramp up plans, although frankly I can’t see ramping up happening in a significant way for at least a few weeks,” MacIsaac said in city-led pandemic update on Feb. 7.“We need to be confident that we can maintain access to urgent and emergent services.” COVID-19: Acute care occupancy still ‘inordinately high’, says Hamilton hospital network The HHS boss revealed the network’s overall adult intensive care unit (ICU) occupancy rate was at 90 per cent as of Monday, which he says is “as good as it’s been for quite some time.”Over 200 COVID patients are in city hospitals with 29 in ICUs.

2015 study, about 40 intensive care units in Canada can provide ECMO.At the moment, at least two patients in Alberta are using the technology.

The number of confirmed or probable COVID-19 cases in Hamilton has increased by 13 since Friday, to 626.

Health-care workers demonstrated in front of Hamilton General Hospital on Thursday afternoon to call for more hospital employees to be included in the Province of Ontario’s pandemic pay increase.