week ending 2022-12-02 BC

This is a day late because the province didn’t have numbers ready yesterday.

Response

Today, the province released the COVID-19 Lessons Learned Review. I have not reviewed it yet.

Mitigation Measures

The province announced that they are going to make it easier for foreign-trained doctors to work in BC.

Transmission

This article says there is an outbreak at the Fraser Valley Institution women’s federal prison in Abbotsford. In-person visits have been temporarily suspended.

Statistics

As of today, the BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 26 Nov there were: +604 confirmed cases, +161 hospital admissions, +34 ICU admissions, +26 all-cause deaths.

As of today, the weekly report said that the previous week (data through 10 Nov) there were: +498 confirmed cases, +192 hospital admissions, +24 ICU admissions, +29 all-cause deaths.

Last week, the BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 19 Nov there were: +498 confirmed cases, +144 hospital admissions, +23 ICU admissions, +21 all-cause deaths.

Last week, the weekly report said that the previous week (data through 12 Nov) there were: +484 confirmed cases, +189 hospital admissions, +36 ICU admissions, +41 all-cause deaths.

The BC CDC dashboard says that there are 369 in hospital / 38 in ICU as of 2 Dec 2022.

Non-COVID Respiratory

From the BC CDC Pathogen Characterization page, adult non-COVID cases:

All-BC non-COVID pediatric cases:

Charts

From the BC CDC Situation Report:


From the BC CDC Variants of Concern report:


From the BC CDC Vaccination Coverage report:


From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet, with data from MetroVancouver