2022-01-12 BC

Transmission

This article says that two schools had to close due to too many staff illnesses.

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This Twitter thread shows that SARS-CoV-2 in Metro Van wastewater looks like it is going down!

Assholes

This article says that anti-vaxxers have been paying vulnerable people to get vaccinated under other people’s names.

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This article says that RCMP arrested five people and issued 40 tickets at an anti-mask protest at a grocery store.

Statistics

Today: +2,859 cases, +6 deaths, +3,193 first doses, +1,835 second doses, +53,932 other doses.

Positivity rate of 19.3%, which is up. 🙁

Currently 500 in hospital / 102 in ICU, 36,641 active cases, 246,693 recovered.

	first doses	second doses	third doses
of adults	92.6%	90.0%	29.9%
of over-12s	92.2%	89.5%	27.9%
of over-5s	88.9%	83.2%	*
of all BCers	86.5%	81.0%	25.4%

Charts

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