Hospitals brace for 300% rise in COVID-19 patients
Up to 6000 coronavirus cases could be in NSW hospitals according to modelling released by the state government
Up to 6000 COVID-19 patients could be hospitalised in NSW by February — almost five times as many as at the peak of the Delta wave — under modelling released by the state’s health department.
The worst-case scenario shows hospitalised cases will rise to 6000, with 600 needing ICU care towards the end of January.
In another model, considered the “most realistic”, hospitalised cases will hit 4700, with 273 in ICU.
This is over three times as many as those admitted at the height of NSW’s Delta wave last September when hospitalisations hit 1268.
