The federal government has announced thousands of new ventilators are on the way for Canada’s hospitals and one expert says they are desperately needed.
“The latest numbers I’ve seen in Ontario are that about 25 per cent of the ventilators that are in use are being used by COVID-19 patients,” says Dionne Aleman, a professor of Industrial engineering at the University of Toronto who specializes in pandemic modelling and simulations.
“I don’t know what the numbers are for B.C. but that’s what we are seeing in Ontario right now and that’s really quite an alarming rate because we are still growing exponentially in those numbers of infections which means that this demand for ventilators will only continue to grow.”
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專家:呼吸機的供應無法快速應對需求 – Expert: The supply of ventilators cannot respond quickly enough to demand (April 1: AM1430-FM889; AM1470-FM96.1; FM947; Vancoolver)