Mitigation Measures This article reports that Prince George is suing its insurer, who is denying claims for losses stemming from losses due to closures for COVID-19. This article reports that Minister Dix says there are no plans to lift vax mandates for public servants and health-care workers. This article reports that the province says that… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-23 BC
Category: Mitigation measures
week ending 2022-06-09 BC
Things are still getting better and they are still not good. The number in hospital — which is one of the only pieces of data which I trust these days — is now finally clearly lower than it was during the Delta wave. Mitigation Measures This article reports that someone is suing the province for… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-09 BC
week ending 2022-05-12 BC
Press Briefing There was a press briefing on Tuesday, which didn’t actually say much. The major announcement (which was echoed in this press release) was that they have finished getting data from 17 of the 18 Colleges of regulated health care professionals about their vax statuses. Aggregated by College: physicians and surgeons: 98.0% dieticians: 98%… Continue reading week ending 2022-05-12 BC
Week ending 2022-04-21 BC
Transmission This article says that a medium-security prison in Agassiz had an outbreak where 59 prisoners got sick. This article says there was another outbreak at Kelowna General. This article says that two cruise ships are scheduled to arrive on Thursday, and one has enough COVID-19 cases (>0.3% of passengers) to trigger an investigation. (I… Continue reading Week ending 2022-04-21 BC
2022-04-05/06 BC
The province announced that they are going to switch to only reporting numbers once a week, and implied that it would be Thursdays. They also implied that the data would be a week old at this point. In conjunction with this, I think I am going to switch to once-per-week reporting, probably on Thursdays. Today… Continue reading 2022-04-05/06 BC
2202-03-31 and 2202-04-01 BC
Mitigation Measures This press release says that the province will give almost $17M in grants to BC arts organizations. Statistics Wed/Thu: +291 cases, +6 deaths, +279 first doses, +816 second doses, +1,899 other doses. 291 in hospital / 43 in ICU. Thu/Fri: +357 cases, +4 deaths, +591 first doses, +1,384 second doses, +2,252 third doses..… Continue reading 2202-03-31 and 2202-04-01 BC
2022-03-29/30 BC
Mitigation Measures This press release from the Ministry of Health says that they are ending the quarantine supports for farm workers. They said that 97% of the farmworkers who enter are fully vaccinated. Statistics +313 cases, +1 death, +230 first doses, +716 second doses, +1,965 other doses. 273 in hospital / 46 in ICU. +291… Continue reading 2022-03-29/30 BC
2022-03-26/27/28 BC
Mitigation Measures While the mask mandate in schools was dropped today, and the mask mandate for adults was dropped a while ago, this article reminds the reader that after you travel outside the country, anyone under 12 needs to still wear masks in indoor public areas. (It’s a federal regulation, and you have to do… Continue reading 2022-03-26/27/28 BC
2022-03-22/23 BC
Testing The province announced today that everyone over 18 can pick up RATs at pharmacies. Mitigation Measures This article says that BC is undercounting long term care home outbreaks by just not calling them outbreaks. This article says that the province has spent $27M at private health clinics to draw down the backlog of surgical… Continue reading 2022-03-22/23 BC
2022-03-11 BC
Note: I am going to reduce how often I post. I already don’t post on weekends; I plan to drop to Mondays and Fridays and maybe Wednesdays. Mitigation Measures Yesterday I said I didn’t know if businesses could still make masks mandatory, This press release from the province says yes, they can still require customers… Continue reading 2022-03-11 BC