Researchers predict that if the trend continues with hospitalization rates and if protective measures slowly decrease, Quebec hospitals can handle the predicted surge in cases of COVID-19.
Still, experts are cautiously optimistic about the province’s plan to loosen measures adopted since mid-March to reduce the transmission of the novel coronavirus. “There is some good news and some uncertainties,” said Institut national d’excellence en sante et en services sociaux (INESSS) CEO Dr.
Luc Boileau about the new data on projections of hospitalization rates of COVID-19 patients. The good news, according to Boileau, is that hospitalization rates are not as alarming as they have been in some European countries and that our health-care system still