Testing The province announced today that everyone over 18 can pick up RATs at pharmacies. Mitigation Measures This article says that BC is undercounting long term care home outbreaks by just not calling them outbreaks. This article says that the province has spent $27M at private health clinics to draw down the backlog of surgical… Continue reading 2022-03-22/23 BC
Author: Ducky
2022-03-20/21 BC
Testing The province declared that people over 30 can now pick up one free rapid test kit (5 tests) at pharmacies. (You can get another kit in four weeks.) Statistics Fri/Sat: +200 casesSat/Sun: +170 casesSun/Mon: +136 cases Over the weekend, ~+2 deaths/day, roughly +278 first doses, +2,506 second doses, +2,724 other doses. Currently 271 in… Continue reading 2022-03-20/21 BC
2022-03-20/21 General
Vaccines This study found that countries which use the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) have a higher rate of COVID-19 than those which use the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV), which uses a live attenuated virus. OPV is easier/cheaper to administer, but there is a (small) risk of getting polio from the vaccine. Yes, countries which use… Continue reading 2022-03-20/21 General
2022-03-17/18 BC
Mitigation Measures This article says that the number of visitors that long term care home residents can have has been increased, but it doesn’t actually say how many visitors residents can have. Statistics Currently 290 in hospital / 46 in ICU. first doses second doses third doses of adults 93.7% 91.4% 58.7% of over-12s 93.4%… Continue reading 2022-03-17/18 BC
2022-03-17/18 General
Mitigation Measures Yep, they did it. On Wednesday I said that the government planned to drop the testing requirement to enter Canada. This article reports that it happened. This article says that as more restrictions are being lifted, a hospital in Montreal reports seeing an increase in “normal” child trauma: broken legs, scrapes, stomach flu,… Continue reading 2022-03-17/18 General
2022-03-15/16 BC
Testing This article says that people over 40 can now pick up RATs at pharmacies. Governance This article says that BC has launched an independent review of its pandemic response. I’m considering writing a nastygram to the commission to diss the data management. Statistics Mon/Tue: +176 cases, +0 deaths, +205 first doses, +1,364 second doses,… Continue reading 2022-03-15/16 BC
2022-03-15/16 General
Mitigation Measures This article says that the federal government is going to drop the COVID-19 test for travellers entering Canada, for both land and air crossings, for fully vaxxed travellers. Rumour has it that the requirement will be dropped on 1 April. Vaccines Remember J&J? The lame-ass one-shot vax that nobody wants? This article says… Continue reading 2022-03-15/16 General
2022-03-14 BC
Statistics Fri/Sat: +280 casesSat/Sun: +211 casesSun/Mon: +198 cases Over the weekend, about +5 deaths, about +310 first doses, +2,328 second doses, +3,289 other doses per day. Currently 359 in hospital / 51 in ICU. first doses second doses third doses of adults 93.7% 91.3% 58.5% of over-12s 93.4% 90.9% 56.7% of over-5s 90.7% 86.8% *… Continue reading 2022-03-14 BC
2022-03-12/13/14 General
Long COVID This preprint says that people with Type O blood are 4.2x as likely to get Long COVID as non-O people. From this Twitter thread: Treatments This preprint looked at effectiveness of monoclonal antibodies against BA.1 and BA.2. It is striking to me how well a monoclonal antibody works against one of the strains… Continue reading 2022-03-12/13/14 General
2022-03-11 BC
Note: I am going to reduce how often I post. I already don’t post on weekends; I plan to drop to Mondays and Fridays and maybe Wednesdays. Mitigation Measures Yesterday I said I didn’t know if businesses could still make masks mandatory, This press release from the province says yes, they can still require customers… Continue reading 2022-03-11 BC