The BC COVID-19 Modelling group has issued its 26th report. It’s worth a read. Here’s their excess mortality update (see p7): They think that case rates are going to go down in BC due to increasing population-level immunity (because everybody has already gotten sick), but they aren’t sure about their model because they say that… Continue reading week ending 2022-11-24 BC
Category: Mitigation measures
week ending 2022-09-15 BC
Transmission This article (referring to this preprint) says that 70-80% of Lower Mainland kids, 60-70% of adults 20-59, and 40% of the over-60s have had COVID-19 infections. The report also mentioned that the province under-reported case counts by 92x (which is very very close to what the BC COVID-19 Modelling group estimated in its last… Continue reading week ending 2022-09-15 BC
week ending 2022-08-25 BC
Mitigation Measures This article reports that civil jury trials in BC will resume on 8 October 2022. (Criminal jury trials had continued throughout the pandemic, with various mitigation measures in place.) Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 20 Aug there were: +737 cases, +180 hospital admissions, +41 ICU… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-25 BC
week ending 2022-08-04 BC
Unexpected Consequences This article reports that bike riders hospitalized because of accidents went up ~25% in the first year of the pandemic, despite all-hospitalizations-from-accidents going down slightly and car traffic decreasing by 25%. (Bicycle traffic increased by 48%, so some of the increase in accidents could certainly be from more bikes on the road as… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-04 BC
week ending 2022-07-21 BC
Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report (with data through 16 July) said that in the week ending on 16 July there were: +1044 cases, +246 hospital admissions, +21 all-cause deaths. This week’s report said that the previous week (data through 9 July) there were: +973 cases, +262 hospital admissions, +29 all-cause deaths. Last week’s report (data… Continue reading week ending 2022-07-21 BC
week ending 2022-06-23 BC
Mitigation Measures This article reports that Prince George is suing its insurer, who is denying claims for losses stemming from losses due to closures for COVID-19. This article reports that Minister Dix says there are no plans to lift vax mandates for public servants and health-care workers. This article reports that the province says that… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-23 BC
week ending 2022-06-09 BC
Things are still getting better and they are still not good. The number in hospital — which is one of the only pieces of data which I trust these days — is now finally clearly lower than it was during the Delta wave. Mitigation Measures This article reports that someone is suing the province for… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-09 BC
week ending 2022-05-12 BC
Press Briefing There was a press briefing on Tuesday, which didn’t actually say much. The major announcement (which was echoed in this press release) was that they have finished getting data from 17 of the 18 Colleges of regulated health care professionals about their vax statuses. Aggregated by College: physicians and surgeons: 98.0% dieticians: 98%… Continue reading week ending 2022-05-12 BC
Week ending 2022-04-21 BC
Transmission This article says that a medium-security prison in Agassiz had an outbreak where 59 prisoners got sick. This article says there was another outbreak at Kelowna General. This article says that two cruise ships are scheduled to arrive on Thursday, and one has enough COVID-19 cases (>0.3% of passengers) to trigger an investigation. (I… Continue reading Week ending 2022-04-21 BC
2022-04-05/06 BC
The province announced that they are going to switch to only reporting numbers once a week, and implied that it would be Thursdays. They also implied that the data would be a week old at this point. In conjunction with this, I think I am going to switch to once-per-week reporting, probably on Thursdays. Today… Continue reading 2022-04-05/06 BC