Then it would be a small percentage of such cases.
Admitted to ICU with testing positive for COVID-19 & having serious complications as a result of COVID-19. They survive & their body overcomes COVID-19, with the help of hospital care, so they eventually test negative for COVID-19, after a long stay in ICU. As any survivor of COVID-19 would probably do after being in a similar situation for long enough, such as isolation or quarantine. So although having overcome COVID-19 & testing negative for it, they are still in ICU due to the damage that COVID-19 did to their body. As such, what's the problem with considering them a COVID related ICU case. Does that about sum it up.
" “You have a significant amount of people who were staying in the ICU with COVID for so long that they actually stopped testing positive for the virus, but the virus has done such a number on their body that they still require critical care,” Jean-Paul Soucy, infectious disease epidemiologist and PhD student at the University of Toronto, told CTVNews.ca.
“I think we need to make those true ICU numbers, the true number of people who are in the ICU and standing with complications of COVID-19, as visible as possible.”
"... in terms of what the public actually cares about, it’s how many people are critically ill due to complications from COVID-19.”
Ontario is now providing a more accurate picture of how many people sickened by COVID-19 are ending up in intensive care units, by including in the daily counts patients who are still requiring care in ICUs, but are no longer testing positive.
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