Exclusive: ICU beds could soon be full as COVID-19 outbreak spreads | Dana_Adele
Dr Coatsworth said health authorities were keeping "a close eye" on ICU capacity but there were no plans yet to release ventilators from the national medical stockpile, as state health departments would draw upon their own stockpiles first.
"ICU admissions and deaths lag behind the cases, because there is usually one week of mild symptoms," Professor MacIntyre said."People can take two weeks or more to have respiratory failure ... It will track along with the epidemiological curve." "Victoria's public hospitals have been advised to remain at 75 per cent levels of elective surgery to ensure our hospitals have the capacity they need to provide lifesaving care should we continue to see a rise in coronavirus cases," a health department spokesman said.
"We have the trained staff and the places that have been refitted," Mr Andrews said. "We are confident we have got everything we're going to need."
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