COVID-19 levels have still not gotten down to where we were in summer 2023, but pretty much all the indicators say that they are falling.
Vaccines
This article reports that 528,575 people — slightly over 10% of BC residents — have gotten a fall COVID-19 booster. 740,529 have gotten flu shots.
It also says that many pharmacies’ COVID-19 appointments are fully booked until December. Note, however, that that article and anecdotal reports from my informants says that appointments do sometimes open up kind of last-minute.
Statistics
As of 2 Nov, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 28 Oct there were: +457 reported cases, +141 hospital admissions, +25 ICU admissions, and +31 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
In the week ending 21 Oct, there were +574 reported cases, +218 hospital admissions, +29 ICU admissions, and +68 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
For comparison, in the previous update, they reported that in the week ending on 21 Oct there were: +571 reported cases, +179 hospital admissions, +28 ICU admissions, and +54 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
*All-cause deaths in people who had a positive COVID-19 test in the prior 30 days, that is.
There were 241 people in hospital and 15 in critical care with COVID-19 on 1 November.
Wastewater
From Jeff’s spreadsheet:
Charts
From the BC CDC Situation Report as of 2 Nov 2023:
From the BC CDC Genomic Surveillance page:
