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COVID-19’s impact on hospital services | CIHI

[ScienceFirst]

All Ph. 2b canadian sites (public healthcare hospitals) are doing elective surgeries as we speak.  US counterpart sites, though private clinics, have probably similar COVID-19 contamination issues, though maybe at lesser or more manageable level, but that would have to be demonstrated.

So in the late February newsletter, reality check, it's fair to assume that we'll probably have 50% of the results that we were initially expecting from patients at the moment of the previous newsletter (Nov. 29), as we enter into a more intense window of COVID-19 cases over the next 30-45-60 days, depending on how all this unfolds.

The COVID-19 cases puts a huge burden on hospitals budgets.  Huge.  We've never seen anything like that over the last 80 years and Omicron numbers outpace Delta numbers in terms of volume, despite better protection, better vaccines.

COVID-19’s impact on hospital services | CIHI

[fredgoodwinson]

Hi Science First - are you saying that we might end up with patients in a Clinical Trial not being monitored when their milestones (which wait for no man) are due?

[ScienceFirst]

Fred ... That's what is fair to consider, considering the current situation.   Expecting business as usual would not be logic.  I would lower my expectation a bit.  

[fredgoodwinson]

While it is possible that enrollment might be affected highly doubt that the Clinical Protocol will be altered for existing participants and could well have enough to get us over the line for BTD with them alone.

[Longholder99]

Ya Im thinking that the pandemic is behind much of the general delays in enrollment vis a vis provedures being halted to make beds available...yet here we are. At tye doorstep of BTD. Not worried as I believe the FDA probably still sees cancer as a worthy malady in the face of the covid drama going on everywhere.

[ScienceFirst]

Doug Ford is currently announcing in a press conference that all elective surgeries are cancelled, due to the burden that COVID-19 is putting on the healthcare system.  So it implies our Ph. 2b Ontario sites. So it's fair to assume that other places will have the same tough decision to make.  Like Quebec (McGill site), etc ...  So it could possibly delay some cystoscopies that

[ScienceFirst]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a host of new public health measures Monday, nearly three weeks after the province's science table warned that the Omicron variant could threaten the stability of the health-care system.

[ScienceFirst]

Ontario is moving schools online for at least two weeks, temporarily closing indoor dining and gyms and pausing non-urgent medical procedures as it faces record-high case counts that, according to public health officials, threaten to overwhelm the province's health-care system. Premier Doug Ford announced the changes at a morning news conference Monday. He was joined by his

[thadeush]

It'$ a ri$k he ab$olutely took to $ave money and promote private $olution$. He KNEW 3 week$ ago about the danger$ of Omicron, but it took him "30 $econd$" to make the decision today AFTER he realized the massive public outcry against his complete incompetence and inaction will affect his ELECTION re$ults. (Sorry for the sort-of (but not really) off-topic post)