Canada just passed a terrible milestone.it’s not the ocean you hear when you hold a seashell to your ear, or your own heartbeat drumming and echoing back at you. it’s the ones you’ve lost calling to let you know they made it to the other side and they’ll be waiting around the campfire until you arrive, take your time.
— tiny fairy tales✨ (@tinyfairytales) April 20, 2022
More than 90 per cent of pandemic deaths in Canada have been in people older than 60 ....There is no doubt that elders, especially those with chronic health conditions, or living in long-term care, are at far greater risk. In recent weeks, we’ve again seen a steady increase in outbreaks, and deaths, in long-term care facilities.But let’s please stop with the too-often-uttered ageist nonsense: “They were going to die anyhow.”Deaths from cancer, heart disease, COPD, diabetes and other things that routinely kill elders have not dropped one iota.The tens of thousands of COVID-19 deaths are on top of that – additional years of life lost.Governments have largely stopped collecting and publishing data. But the hospitalizations and deaths won’t stop just because we avert our gaze.
Dr. Ogieglo notes that in addition to Covid deaths, people have been dying earlier of other𧡠SK in 2020 and 2021 had excess mortality compared to the previous 8 years. From 2012 to 2019 we typically saw from 9300 to 9500 deaths per year in our province. In 2020 there were 10,266 (7.6% higher than in 2019) and in 2021 there were 11,025 (15.6% higher than in 2019). 1/11 pic.twitter.com/n5wCm7aO0E
— Dr. Adam Ogieglo (@AOgieglo) May 15, 2022
This is a graph that I have shared previously that demonstrated that we are on pace to exceed the 2021 COVID death toll this year. In 2021, COVID took 802 lives in our province. We are on pace for closer to 900 deaths for 2022. 4/11 pic.twitter.com/h7HwviEXkl
— Dr. Adam Ogieglo (@AOgieglo) May 15, 2022
All to say, COVID is still causing a large burden of death in our province. We have deployed vaccines (with less than ideal uptake of booster doses), and accessible rapid tests as well as early therapeutics but we are not using any other tools to reduce this burden. 6/11
— Dr. Adam Ogieglo (@AOgieglo) May 15, 2022