Most indicators keep going down, which is good! We are now at almost the same level of hospitalizations as we were right before Omicron hit. Wastewater levels might be going up in Vancouver, but that might also just be noise.
Mitigation Measures
This article says that the province is taking some heat for telling people they could get a $1,000 B.C. Emergency Benefit (COVID-19 tax credit) but didn’t tell people that they had to file their 2019 income taxes by a certain date to be eligible. 90% of the people who applied for the benefit had done so before the province issued the date stipulation. Ooops.
Statistics
As of 23 Nov, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 18 Nov there were: +357 reported cases, +95 hospital admissions, +18 ICU admissions, and +24 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
In the week ending 11 Nov, they now report that there were +478 reported cases, +178 hospital admissions, +24 ICU admissions, and +38 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
For comparison, in the previous update, they reported that in the week ending on 11 Nov there were: +475 reported cases, +146 hospital admissions, +21 ICU admissions, and +26 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 197 people in hospital and 17 in critical care with COVID-19 on 23 November.
Charts
From the BC CDC Situation Report:
From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
