Assholes This article says health care workers were harassed at a clinic in New West yesterday. This article reports that Vancouver health care workers were warned about likely harassment tomorrow: truckers protesting are expected tomorrow. Statistics Today: +1,518 cases, +13 deaths, +1,380 first doses, +3,875 second doses, +25,215 other doses. Currently 985 in hospital /… Continue reading 2022-02-04 BC
Month: February 2022
2022-02-04 General
Vaccines This article reports that NACI now says that you should wait three months after getting COVID-19 before you get a booster. It’s not bad, it’s just that three months will give you better protection, they think. Note that they don’t actually have any data on the COVID-19 booster specifically, they are basing that advice… Continue reading 2022-02-04 General
2022-02-03 BC
Statistics +1,518 cases, +13 deaths, +1,380 first doses, +3,875 second doses, +25,215 other doses. Currently 985 in hospital / 145 in ICU, 25,554 active cases, 299,657 recovered. first doses second doses third doses of adults 93.1% 90.6% 50.9% of over-12s 92.8% 90.1% 47.6% of over-5s 90.0% 84.2% * of all BCers 87.5% 81.8% 43.2% This… Continue reading 2022-02-03 BC
2022-02-03 General
Variants This is really strange. This article says that in New York City and also in some places in California, they have been seeing strange variants in their wastewater surveillance for the past year — variants they haven’t seen in any people. It wasn’t clear, but I think there are three main lineages (classed as… Continue reading 2022-02-03 General
2022-02-02 BC
Statistics Today: +1776 cases, +18 deaths, +2,156 first doses, +3,843 second doses, +26,476 other doses. Currently 988 in hospital / 136 in ICU, 25,959 active cases, 297,682 recovered. first doses second doses third doses of adults 93.1% 90.6% 50.3% of over-12s 92.8% 90.1% 47.0% of over-5s 90.0% 84.1% * of all BCers 87.5% 81.8% 42.7%… Continue reading 2022-02-02 BC
2022-02-02 General
Happy Twosday! Transmission This article reports on the results of the first human challenge trial (meaning: deliberate infection) of COVID Classic. You’re going WAIT WHAT? HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY PASS ETHICS REVIEW? This happened in the UK (so different ethics boards), and they did work hard to minimize potential harm to the subjects (like making… Continue reading 2022-02-02 General
2022-02-01 BC
Press Briefing Here is what I found interesting/novel in today’s briefing (video, slides): Paxlovid BC has 4000 doses coming (or here already? unclear), and that’s way fewer than the number of cases. Paxlovid has to be started within five days of symptoms. DrH said they have set up a “hub and spoke” model so that… Continue reading 2022-02-01 BC
2022-02-01 General
Vaccines This study in Israel of people over 60 found that the risk of infection dropped in half after their fourth dose of vaccine; the risk of severe illness dropped by a fourth. Note that this sounds really good, but the study was only in people over 60, and there’s no information on waning. Pathology… Continue reading 2022-02-01 General
2022-01-31 BC
Statistics Fri/Sat: +1,725 cases Sat/Sun: +1,293 cases Sun/Mon: +1,057 cases Over the weekend, approximately +7 deaths, +2,027 first doses, +3,423 second doses, +30,802 other doses per day. Currently 1,048 in hospital / 138 in ICU, 27,454 active cases, 293,124 recovered. first doses second doses third doses of adults 93.1% 90.5% 49.1% of over-12s 92.7% 90.1%… Continue reading 2022-01-31 BC
2022-01-29/30/31 General
Vaccines There’s a great, long Twitter thread which looks at the effect of vaccines. (It summarizes a paywalled article, if you want to see the whole thing.) One of the elements which I found striking was how the risk of COVID-19 relative to the flu has dropped over time. In mid 2020, the infection fatality… Continue reading 2022-01-29/30/31 General