The numbers reported by the province only offer a snapshot of the cases showing up in hospital and don't necessarily reflect the virus activity amongst the broader population.
All of the deaths reported by the province were people over the age of 50, and all of the people admitted to ICU this past week because of the flu were adults 30 or older.This 2022-23 cold and flu season, there have been 1,918 hospitalizations, 196 ICU admissions and 8,495 cases.
Provincial ICU capacity, including surge beds, sat at 84 per cent on Jan. 12, down from 87 per cent a week ago.Doctors in Alberta warned back in November things could be worse: the viral illness season typically doesn’t ramp up until the thick of winter. But this year, numbers began to skyrocket in the fall.
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