Three more Albertans have died from COVID, according to the latest weekly data released by the provincial government.
That brings the death toll for the current season to 433.
The latest release also shows an additional 98 people were hospitalized for COVID, including 10 admitted to intensive care units (ICU).
In total, this season there have been 3,616 hospitalizations and 226 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 the deaths include those “resulting from a clinically compatible illness in a lab-confirmed COVID-19 case, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death identified (e.g. trauma, poisoning, drug overdose, etc.)”
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 Aug. 27, 2023, to Aug. 24, 2024.
Older people tend to be the most vulnerable to the severe effects of COVID, but younger people can also be affected.
The table below the main points shows the total number of hospitalizations, intensive care 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 but have just been added to the data.
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