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COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to drop in Quebec, with a decrease of 58
Lillian Roy
CTVNewsMontreal.ca Digital Reporter
Updated March 2, 2022 11:30 a.m. EST
Published March 2, 2022 11:15 a.m. EST
Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are continuing to drop in Quebec, with a decrease of 58 Wednesday for a total of 1,381.
88 patients were admitted and 146 were discharged.
Intensive care numbers dropped to 82, a decrease of eight, with seven new entries and 15 discharges.
Twenty new deaths were reported, bringing the total to 14,016 since the pandemic began.
Of the new hospitalizations, 51 patients are older than 60, with 31 of them triple-vaccinated, 12 double-vaccinated, and six unvaccinated. Two patients have an unknown vaccination status.
There are 37 patients below age 59. Thirteen are triple-vaccinated, nine are double-vaccinated, one has received one dose of the vaccine, eight are unvaccinated and two have an unknown vaccination status.
One child between the ages of five and 11 was admitted, while three children below age four were admitted.
As for ICU patients, two are triple-vaxxed, one is double-vaxxed, two are unvaccinated and one is of unknown status.
According to public health, unvaccinated individuals are currently 7.4 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 and 15.9 times more likely to end up in the ICU.
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