By Chris Brown

Zero COVID-19 patients in ICU in Medicine Hat, seven-day new case rate trending down

May 18, 2022 | 4:08 PM

Medicine Hat’s COVID seven-day new case rate per 100,000 people is 74.9 on 51 new cases in the past seven days. The previous period’s rate was 82.2 and there were 56 new cases.

The city is in the “high” classification for seven-day case rate, the same as last week. There are four classifications – highest, high, medium and low.

There have been 7,905 confirmed total cases in Medicine Hat and 97 deaths.

With the province limiting testing in the fifth wave and since, these confirmed cases do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the community.

The May 16 wastewater data for Medicine Hat shows the city’s weekly average of genomic copies (gc) per one millilitre (mL) of wastewater is 53.42. It’s steadily been dropping from 215.87 on April 14.

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Among all Medicine Hat residents, 78.7 per cent have received one dose of vaccine, 75.2 per cent have received two doses and 36.3 per cent have received three doses.

Health Minister Jason Copping and chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw provided their weekly update on Tuesday.

Copping shared data he said showed signs the province is putting the BA.2 wave behind us. The average PCR test positivity rate over the past six days is about 20 per cent, down from 23 per cent last week and that wastewater data is showing the levels in most centres are declining or fluctuating at levels well below the BA.1 levels.

A spokesperson for Alberta Health Services told CHAT News on Tuesday there are currently 72 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with four of those in the ICU. There are 18 inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with zero COVID-19 positive patients in the ICU.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 37 inpatients with four in the ICU. Pincher Creek Health Centre has six; Crowsnest Pass Health Centre has five; Taber Health Centre has two; Big Country Hospital, Brooks Health Centre, Cardston Health Centre, and Raymond Health Centre have one each.

There are now 1,165 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 42 of which are in ICU, and 4,452 deaths. Sixty-one Albertans have died from COVID in the past week.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 578,291.

There are 3,106 new cases confirmed in the province over the past seven days.

Again these are only the confirmed cases and do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the province.

Alberta has administered 8,802,520 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

In the last seven days, COVID was the primary or a contributing factor in 62.5 per cent of non-ICU hospitalizations and 79.1 per cent of ICU admissions.

Among current hospitalizations, 19.5 per cent are unvaccinated, 2.8 per cent have had one dose, 25.2 per cent have had two doses and 52.5 per cent have had three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 81.3 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 77 per cent have received two doses 37.8 per cent have received three doses.

More detailed information is available on the province’s COVID-19 dashboard.