The Peak Of Omicron May Be Approaching In Canada, Health Experts

Nikki Attkisson | Last Updated : January 25, 2022

Interviews with a dozen healthcare employees, including eight current and former nurses, depict a stretched healthcare system caused by a pandemic that struck at the worst possible time.

The Peak Of Omicron May Be Approaching In Canada, Health Experts

Staff is being sidelined by illness as more COVID-19 patients than ever require hospitalization, pushing health personnel who have been weary for two years to carry on more work. Canadians are proud of their healthcare system.

The Peak Of Omicron May Be Approaching In Canada, Health Experts

Despite the fact that critics claim administrations failed to invest appropriately in it, making it vulnerable to the ravages of a years-long public health disaster, due to training and certification backlogs, capped earnings, or the reputation of a punishing profession, if health workers depart, and are not replaced, then health system capacity may be adversely affected.

Despite obstacles and long waiting times, some provinces have made provisions for international healthcare workers to return to work soon after testing positive for COVID-19. For instance, Ontario allows international nurses to gain on-the-job experience in hospitals despite long wait times and barriers to their practice in Canada.

The Covid-19 epidemic, as well as its extremely contagious Omicron form, has exacerbated an already difficult staffing situation in Canadian hospitals. The peak of Omicron may be approaching in Canada, according to public health experts, and Ontario announced this week that it would lift its regulations.

The shortage of healthcare workers will, however, persist for the time being. Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, hospital care in Canada has been compromised.

Each wave has posed a challenge to healthcare institutions in finding a balance between COVID-19 patients and patients with other health problems. It was necessary to make decisions regarding what care could not be postponed and what could be postponed.

An early national study indicates that during the first two waves of the pandemic, the quality of care remained maintained. In-hospital mortality, hip fracture surgery timeliness, and radiation therapy wait times remained consistent, despite higher wait times for joint replacement surgeries.

At the hospital, region, province/territorial, and national levels, this includes data on surgical wait times, obstetric care, readmissions, and mortality, as well as the utilization of acute care services for certain conditions.

COVID-19 unexpectedly displaced some conditions, resulting in COVID-19 patients taking the place of patients who would ordinarily occupy these ICU beds. Seasonal respiratory virus transmission was reduced by public health interventions such as physical separation and mask use, resulting in fewer hospital admissions for individuals with chronic and acute respiratory illnesses such as COPD and pneumonia.

People with hypertension and obesity are at a higher risk of both cardiac problems and COVID-19 infections. We saw fewer hospitalizations for cardiac problems during periods of high COVID-19 hospitalizations.

People with heart issues or other frailties, who were more likely to have poor COVID-19 outcomes, may have been admitted for COVID-19 rather than these other chronic disorders. Other industries, such as long-term care, have followed suit.

While COVID-19 immunizations are very successful, a small percentage of those who are vaccinated may become infected with the virus that causes it if they are exposed to it.

This means that even if the vaccine is highly efficient, some people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 will become ill, and some may need to be hospitalized or die. It’s also possible that a person could get sick despite being infected just before or after vaccination.

Because it takes around two weeks for the body to develop immunity following vaccination, a person could become ill if the vaccine has not had enough time to work.

According to several Canadian news organizations, job vacancies in Canada’s health and social support industry surged by around eighty percent between the third quarter of 2019 and the third quarter of 2021.


Nikki Attkisson

With over 15 years as a practicing journalist, Nikki Attkisson found herself at Powdersville Post now after working at several other publications. She is an award-winning journalist with an entrepreneurial spirit and worked as a journalist covering technology, innovation, environmental issues, politics, health etc. Nikki Attkisson has also worked on product development, content strategy, and editorial management for numerous media companies. She began her career at local news stations and worked as a reporter in national newspapers.

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