2021-07-16 BC

Vaccinations

In this article, Dr. Henry points out that evacuation centres (for e.g. wildfires) make distancing difficult, so if you live in a wildfire area, you really ought to get your vaccination ASAP.

Variants

Delta is now 37% of cases. Uh-oh.

Mitigation Measures

In this article: Horgan goes along with Trudeau’s plans to open the border with the US in mid-August. This seems a bit at odds with the BC Restart Plan, which says BCers can travel recreationally within Canada now, but doesn’t say anything about recreational travel internationally, not even at Step 4 (which will be on 7 Sept at the earliest).

Statistics

+45 cases, +0 deaths, +5,505 first doses, +57,099 second doses.

Currently 60 in hospital / 12 in ICU, 652 active cases, 145,908 recovered.

first dosessecond doses
of adults80.6%53.2%
of over-12s79.5%49.9%
of all BCers72.4%45.3%

We have 754,402 doses in fridges; we’ll use it up in 12.0 days at last week’s rate. We’ve given more doses than we’d received by 17 days ago.

We have 690,876 mRNA doses in fridges; we’ll use it up in 11.0 days at last week’s rate. We’ve given more doses than we’d received by 17 days ago.

We have 63,526 AZ doses in fridges; we’ll use it up in 230 days at last week’s rate.

Charts