Press Briefing I missed the first half of the briefing, and it didn’t look interesting enough to catch up on. I gather that they mostly talked about the vax for kids 5-11. The vax will arrive tomorrow, first invites will go out on Sunday, and kids will start getting vaxxed on Monday. Dix/Henry/Ballem dodged questions… Continue reading 2021-11-23 BC
Month: November 2021
2021-11-23 General
Mitigation Measures I have heard that it is critically important for masks to fit well to be useful, yet most of the people I see wearing masks have big obvious gaps in them. How could these possibly work? And yet, clearly they do. In addition to multiple studies showing mask-wearing reduces cases, pretty much every… Continue reading 2021-11-23 General
2021-11-22 BC
Mitigation Measures This article reports that a tribunal rejected a human rights complaint from a woman who refused to wear a mask in a Lululemon store, and refused what the tribunal thought were reasonable accommodations. This article reports on a snafu? poor messaging? at the border. There was a directive that Canadians in BC could… Continue reading 2021-11-22 BC
2021-11-20/21/22 General
Pathology This article says that people with mental illnesses are at much higher risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death. I gather that it’s not the mental illness per se, but the consequences of mental illness that put them at risk. Mitigation Measures This article reports that the Government of Canada has ended its COVID-era… Continue reading 2021-11-20/21/22 General
2021-11-19 BC
Statistics +497 cases, +3 deaths, +1,816 first doses, +3,928 second doses, +14,864 other doses. Currently 358 in hospital / 109 in ICU, 3,420 active cases, 208,702 recovered. first doses second doses of adults 91.2% 87.6% of over-12s 90.8% 87.0% of all BCers 82.6% 79.2% Charts From the Government of Canada’s vaccine coverage page, first doses… Continue reading 2021-11-19 BC
2021-11-19 General
Vaccines This article reports that Health Canada and NACI have approved the pediatric Pfizer vaccine for 5-11 year olds! Interestingly, NACI says that kids should space the influenza and COVID-19 vaccinations, not because they shots are less effective, but because if there is an adverse effect, they want to be able to tell which shot… Continue reading 2021-11-19 General
2021-11-18 BC
Statistics +468 cases, +9 deaths, +814 first doses, 3,717 second doses, +13,625 boosters. Currently 355 in hospital / 110 in ICU, 3,345 active cases, 208,284 recovered. first doses second doses of adults 91.2% 87.5% of over-12s 90.8% 87.0% of all BCers 82.6% 79.1% Charts
2021-11-18 General
Treatments This article talks about the good long-term results of AstraZeneca’s polyclonal antibody (brand name Evusheld). The article says it’s a two shot therapy like a vaccine, and given pre-exposure gives 83% protection over six months, sort of like a vaccine. Unlike a vaccine, however, it should work just as well in people who are… Continue reading 2021-11-18 General
2021-11-17 BC
Statistics +324 cases, +2,533 first doses, +3,201 second doses, +12,614 other doses, +7 deaths. Currently 379 in hospital / 109 in ICU, 3,380 active cases, 207,779 recovered. first doses second doses of adults 91.2% 87.4% of over-12s 90.7% 86.9% of all BCers 82.6% 79.0% Charts The vaccine supply figures from the BC CDC dashboard don’t… Continue reading 2021-11-17 BC
2021-11-17 General
Vaccines This study (in the US) found that for counties with vaccination rates above 40%, for each percentage increase in vaccination rate, the COVID-19 case incidence dropped by 1.5% and the death incidence dropped by 2.7%. Go vaccines! I prefer to wait until things are done-done before publishing about them, but this is important: anonymous… Continue reading 2021-11-17 General