- The Province of Alberta spent $61.3 million in avoidable healthcare spending on intensive care unit costs for unvaccinated patients, as a result of 1,028 avoidable ICU admissions (13,015 bed-days and 61.8% of baseline ICU bed capacity), during the Delta wave of COVID in the final 4 months of 2021. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12630-022-02299-w 127 comments science