By Chris Brown

No COVID-positive patients in Hat ICU

Current COVID hospitalizations under 1,000 in Alberta

Jun 2, 2022 | 9:49 AM

There are fewer than 1,000 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19 according to the online update from the province this week.

This is the first week without an in-person update from Health Minister Jason Copping and chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw. The province has scaled back updates to every two weeks as the first wave wanes.

In Medicine Hat, the number of new cases confirmed in the past seven days is less than half of the number in the previous week.

Medicine Hat’s COVID seven-day new case rate per 100,000 people is 54.3 on 37 new cases in the past seven days. The previous period’s rate was 116 and there were 79 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.

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There have been 8,021 confirmed total cases in Medicine Hat and 98 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 30 wastewater data for Medicine Hat shows the city’s weekly average of genomic copies (gc) per one millilitre (mL) of wastewater is 39.22. It’s steadily been dropping from 215.87 on April 14.

Among all Medicine Hat residents, 78.7 per cent have received one dose of vaccine, 75.2 per cent have received two doses and 36.4 per cent have received three doses.

A spokesperson from AHS told CHAT News on Thursday that there are currently 48 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with two of those in the ICU. There are 15 inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with no COVID-19 positive patients in the ICU.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 22 inpatients with two in the ICU. Brooks Health Centre has four inpatients; Crowsnest Pass Health Centre has two; and Cardston Health Centre and Pincher Creek Health Centre have two each.

There are now 931 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 29 of which are in ICU, and 4,551 deaths. Fifty-one Albertans have died from COVID in the past week.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 583,112.

There are 2,348 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 8,847,062 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

In the last seven days, COVID was the primary or a contributing factor in 62 per cent of non-ICU hospitalizations and 75 per cent of ICU admissions.

Among current hospitalizations, 19.8 per cent are unvaccinated, 2.6 per cent have had one dose, 24.4 per cent have had two doses and 53.3 per cent have had three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 81.4 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 77.1 per cent have received two doses 38 per cent have received three doses.

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