Statistics
This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 13 Aug there were: +877 cases, +181 hospital admissions, +29 ICU admissions, +24 all-cause deaths.
This week’s report said that the previous week (data through 6 Aug) there were: +899 cases, +226 hospital admissions, +39 ICU admissions, +40 all-cause deaths.
Last week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 6 Aug there were: +900 cases, +173 hospital admissions, +35 ICU admissions, +28 all-cause deaths.
Last week’s report said that the previous week (data through 30 July) there were: +983 cases, +312 hospital admissions, +38 ICU admissions, +54 all-cause deaths.
The BC CDC dashboard says that there are 366 in hospital / 22 in ICU as of 18 August 2022.
Sports
This article reports that SFU will play four football games against US teams in Blaine because of border vaccine requirements. (No, I didn’t know that SFU was a member of the US’ NCAA.)
Transmission
The most BC COVID-19 Modelling Group report estimates that BC is undercounting cases by 91x, based on serology data. They also think that the BA.5 wave has peaked.
Charts
From the BC CDC Situation Report:
From the BC CDC VOC report:
“Other Omicron” is ticking up in this graph — but what other Omicron is there besides BA.1.*, BA.2.*, BA.4.*, and BA.5.*?
