Also:
""In ICU” numbers include people testing positive for COVID-19 and people who are in ICU for a COVID-19-related illness but have since tested negative."
It's not clear from the text that they are excluding people in the ICU with a positive test but are there for another reason.
Your expectations may be met soon enough. We're 800% higher in admits than we were 3 weeks ago. The total number of beds reducing up to 2 days ago looks more like a fluke than anything, a slight relief before the wave.
For what it's worth, I've been trying to find evidence of hospitals running out of ICU beds due to Omicron, but I'm not seeing it anywhere in North America, even in places that appear to have peaked. Staffing shortages due to quarantine policy seem to be a much bigger problem.
The vaccines really do seem to be working, and Ontario has a lot of vaccinated high risk folks compared to most US states.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/COVID-San-Francisco-s...