I was just about to publish both General and BC, and… all the work I had done for the past week on the General post has just… vanished. I’ve filed a ticket with my ISP to see if they were doing something funky with my WordPress database, but I might have to recreate the entire post. I won’t be able to recreated it until tomorrow at the earliest, and if I have to re-create it, there will be some material that I lose. Sorry.
The good news is that COVID-19 levels in BC definitively appear to be dropping.
Statistics
As of 26 Jan, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 20 Jan there were: +413 reported cases, +107 hospital admissions, +25 ICU admissions, and +13 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
In the week ending 13 Jan, they now report that there were +548 reported cases, +145 hospital admissions, +18 ICU admissions, and +24 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
For comparison, in the previous update (2024-01-19) they reported that for the week ending 13 Jan, that there were: +543 reported cases, +129 hospital admissions, +16 ICU admissions, and +20 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 168 people in hospital and 16 in critical care with COVID-19 on 18 January.
Charts
From the BC CDC Situation Report:
Note: the above chart doesn’t really jibe with the numbers I have, with cases going up monotonically over the past four weeks: 363, 423, 511, 543. Maybe the difference is that I only have weekly numbers, not daily? But the seven-day average ought to make things look broadly similar?
From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
