2022-03-22/23 BC

Testing

The province announced today that everyone over 18 can pick up RATs at pharmacies.

Mitigation Measures

This article says that BC is undercounting long term care home outbreaks by just not calling them outbreaks.

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This article says that the province has spent $27M at private health clinics to draw down the backlog of surgical cases.

Statistics

• Mon/Tue: +259 cases / +0 deaths, +278 first doses, +2,506 second doses, +2,724 other doses. 254 in hospital / 48 in ICU.
• Tue/Wed: +269 cases, +8 deaths, +423 first doses, +1,499 second doses, +2,433 other doses. Currently 258 in hospital / 49 in ICU.

	first doses	second doses	third doses
of adults	93.8%	91.4%	58.9%
of over-12s	93.4%	91.0%	57.1%
of over-5s	90.8%	87.1%	*
of all BCians	89.9%	86.3%	53.0%

Charts

From this Twitter thread:

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