The researchers reviewed ICES data on another 531,702 people in Ontario, 268,521 of whom tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2021. They compared physical care use, adding clinic visits, emergency room visits, hospital days, home visits and long-term care days, among other people who tested positive and others who otherwise gave similar results but tested negative. Two months or more after infection, physical care was not unusual among other people. who tested positive, especially women.
The average age of the examined population was 44 years and 51 per cent were women.
The largest increase in physical care use occurred in a small subset of the population: about 1% of those who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. According to the study, those patients spent an extra week or more in the hospital over the next year to others who were not infected.
By early 2022, it was estimated that nearly a portion (45%) of Canada’s population had been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Based on those numbers, the authors expect increased physical care use in the future, with 1% of Americans inflamed only about 7% of hospital days in Canada before the COVID-19 pandemic. To add to the strain on the health care system, there are fewer staffed hospital beds now than before the pandemic.
“Given the number of recent infections, our locations point to significant use of physical care by Canadians,” says Dr. Brown. Candace McNaughton, an emergency physician at Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, Ontario. visits based on the day before the COVID-19 pandemic, depending on the number of other people in Canada who were recently infected, will have to find time and resources for a hundred more clinic visits depending on the year, and there are now fewer doctors than before the pandemic. “
Most other people infected with SARS-CoV-2 will not have more physical attention, but will compete for scarcer physical care resources, as will the 1% of other people whose desires for physical care are expanding dramatically.
Increased demand of this magnitude will require extensive restructuring and investment of resources.
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