Costs for a COVID-19 patient treated in intensive care can climb to an estimated $50,000-Report
A new report says costs for a COVID-19 patient treated in intensive care can climb to an estimated $50,000 compared with about $8,400 dollars for someone who's had a heart attack. The Canadian Institute for Health Information report says the cost for a pneumonia patient being in ICU is about eight-thousand dollars.But it says COVID patients remain there for much longer and, on average, their treatment amounts to about $23,000.The report covers data from between January 2020 and March 2021.It says COVID-19 cost Canada's health-care system a billion dollars during that time, but it excludes cost...