Happy Canada Day! Charts COVID-19 levels in wastewater, from my buddy Jeff: Variant chart from the BC CDC variants page:
Category: Testing
2022-05-27 BC tiny
Testing Here’s this week’s wastewater charts, from my buddy Jeff’s spreadsheet: Fraser is now clearly going down. Vancouver might be going up, but that might just be noise. North Shore, Richmond, and Langley are looking stable. Note that while the levels are declining, they still aren’t good. They are still two or three times what… Continue reading 2022-05-27 BC tiny
2022-05-20 BC tiny
The federal vaccination by age over time chart is now getting updated every other week, so you only get the wastewater chart. Why do I make a post that is so small? Because wastewater data — noisy as it is — is one of the most meaningful data sources which we have. The case data… Continue reading 2022-05-20 BC tiny
2022-05-13 BC tiny
I present to you the Friday charts. Charts From my buddy Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet: From the federal vaccination page (they are updating every two weeks now):
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
Week ending 2022-04-14 BC
Testing From today’s BC COVID-19 Situation Report, wastewater COVID-19 levels are going up: Vaccines The BC CDC dashboard says that Novavax vaccines have arrived! The province is being lazy and using the J&J slot to now mean “J&J and Novavax”, but I think that the J&J never got distributed. The dashboard says that 93 of… Continue reading Week ending 2022-04-14 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
2022-04-02/03/04 BC
Transmission This article reports that 9 of 11 cruise ships which were supposed to go to Victoria have already cancelled, probably because of COVID-19 cases. Government This article reports that Premier Horgan has COVID-19. Testing This article has things slightly garbled, I think. It says that it’s no longer required to report the results of… Continue reading 2022-04-02/03/04 BC
2022-03-20/21 BC
Testing The province declared that people over 30 can now pick up one free rapid test kit (5 tests) at pharmacies. (You can get another kit in four weeks.) Statistics Fri/Sat: +200 casesSat/Sun: +170 casesSun/Mon: +136 cases Over the weekend, ~+2 deaths/day, roughly +278 first doses, +2,506 second doses, +2,724 other doses. Currently 271 in… Continue reading 2022-03-20/21 BC
2022-03-07 BC
Testing This Ministry of Health press release says that people over 60 can now pick up one box of five rapid tests each at local pharmacies. (For reference, the over-seventies were able to pick up starting on 23 February 2022.) Statistics Fri/Sat: +385 casesSat/Sun: +327 casesSun/Mon: +285 cases Note that the case counts reported today… Continue reading 2022-03-07 BC