Doctor: BC we have a problem. The hospitals are much busier last 72 hrs. Significant increase in Covid cases esp. in younger people.. presenting really sick. Needing 100% O2 to stay alive.

” At this pace of admissions our covid unit will be over capacity before Tuesday. “https://twitter.com/dockevinmcleod/status/1378499216683593732BC we have a problem. The hospitals are much busier last 72 hours. Significant increase in COVID cases especially in younger people who are coming in around day 10 from initial disease onset. Presenting really sick. Needing 100% oxygen to stay alive teetering on intubation sick.It’s many patients in that 20 to 50 year old group. Most do not seem to have co morbidities. This will go very badly if people don’t wise up. Don’t travel right now. At this pace of admissions our covid unit will be over capacity before Tuesday.Younger people think they are invincible. That feeling quickly fades when we are blasting you with 100% oxygen and your saturation’s are sitting high 80’s and all you really hear is a team debating pros and cons of intubating you and hooking you up to a ventilator.North Van Internal Medicine specialist Dr. Mcleod has been in the news before:A Lions Gate Hospital doctor reflects on life in the COVID-19 ward‘For me, it is personal’: B.C. doctor makes heartfelt appeal after death of 3 COVID-19 patients​https://preview.redd.it/xbfv59wio2r61.png?width=898&format=png&auto=webp&s=a056de253784347233b5aac4707936c077905c33​https://preview.redd.it/fa3jr1ljo2r61.png?width=892&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c99984405442c4ec08d15327d1713adc53bc985https://preview.redd.it/7tcr2sako2r61.png?width=877&format=png&auto=webp&s=3aed54432d20d5907a7e2035a7c4560c2424f996 via /r/CanadaCoronavirus https://ift.tt/3dDeWQG