Another 25 Albertans have died from COVID, according to the latest weekly data released by the provincial government.
This brings the death toll during the season to 403.
The latest statement also shows that another 141 people have been hospitalized with COVID, bringing the total to seven admitted to intensive care units (ICUs).
In total, there have already been 3,278 hospitalizations this season, totaling two hundred ICU admissions.
Admissions come with patients with “incidental” cases of COVID-19 admitted to hospitals or intensive care units for other reasons.
Alberta Health says deaths come with those “resulting from clinically compatible illness in a laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19, unless the transparent cause of death (e. g. , trauma, poisoning, drug overdose, etc. ) is known. “
These numbers make up the difference between hospitalizations and deaths in the province’s recent peak weekly report from last week’s report, for the 2023-2024 respiratory virus tracking season.
The season runs from August 27, 2023 to August 24, 2024.
Older people tend to be the most vulnerable to severe outcomes from COVID, but younger people can be affected, too.
The table below the main points shows the total number of hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths during the existing respiratory virus season, by age group.
It will also locate the population-adjusted rate (per 100,000 people) by age group.
All of this knowledge comes from the provincial government’s Respiratory Virus Dashboard, which is updated weekly.
However, there are reporting delays, which means that not all deaths and hospitalizations that occurred during the last era of weekly reporting are included.
Each weekly report includes serious events that occurred in the past few weeks and have just been added to the data.
To learn more about why, check out this story:
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