While the Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, Doug Ford, hit the panic button this week and demanded that the whole province go into a stay-at-home lockdown because the province’s ICU are being overrun with COVID patients, an ER doctor is wondering where are all the patients.

ICU Ontario. Overall census (orange) unchanged despite wave three for covid. Overall intubation (yellow) unchanged despite wave three for covid. Intubated covid (green) continues to climb in absolute numbers but remains proportionate to total ICU covid, i.e. no change in acuity pic.twitter.com/g33Vy4i7dv

— Jean Marc Benoit MD (@JeanmarcBenoit) April 8, 2021

Of course, the panic is all about the computer models, but if his chart is correct, it reveals that Ontario ERs are running at about 70% capacity.

In the midst of this recent panic-demic, some also asked the embarrassing question if ICUs are being overwhelmed, why is a COVID field hospital, set up to handle this pandemic, sitting empty. READ: WARMINGTON: No patients at Sunnybrook’s COVID field hospital?

And another points out that while the number of COVID cases is clearly going up, the number of deaths are not.

cases discouraging but death rates so far have not followed case increases, presumably reflecting success of vaccination of LTCs and over80s. Age composition of ICUs is mostly 55-80. With recent increase in fed vaccine supply, similar progress in 55-80 agegroup should follow pic.twitter.com/n4brARi4Rz

— Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit) April 9, 2021

Of course, this makes sense since the province has vaccinated many of the elderly or those who are most vulnerable to COVID.

This pandemic changed from a medical one to a political one, months ago.