Transmission This article talks about the sharp rise in cases in the Central Okanagan. Mitigation Measures In response to spiking case rates, the Province has instituted some restrictions on the Central Okanagan. This article explains. Statistics +185 cases, +3 deaths, +5,321 first doses, +43,420 second doses. Currently 47 in hospital / 20 in ICU, 909… Continue reading 2021-07-28 BC
Category: Mitigation measures
2021-07-16 BC
Vaccinations In this article, Dr. Henry points out that evacuation centres (for e.g. wildfires) make distancing difficult, so if you live in a wildfire area, you really ought to get your vaccination ASAP. Variants Delta is now 37% of cases. Uh-oh. Mitigation Measures In this article: Horgan goes along with Trudeau’s plans to open the… Continue reading 2021-07-16 BC
2021-07-13 BC
Vaccines This article slags the province for throwing away expired AZ doses. This really surprised me. I watch the supply carefully, noting when we got how many doses of which vaccine, and I don’t think we have much expiring. BC has used 64K less than they have received. The expiry date is either six or… Continue reading 2021-07-13 BC
2021-07-12 BC
Vaccine Clinics Here are graphs of BC’s first and second dose rates by age: Variants I mentioned in yesterday’s General post that the Netherlands is seeing a meteoric rise in cases. There are two things I should have mentioned: The Dutch removed almost all restrictions on 26 June, just five days before BC removed almost… Continue reading 2021-07-12 BC
2021-07-03/04/05 BC
Mitigation Measures The province has announced that universities and colleges are going back to in-person in the fall. Vaccine Clinics Fraser Health has said you can walk in to any of their clinics for your first dose. I heard from someone that VCH — or at least the West End Community Clinic — is doing… Continue reading 2021-07-03/04/05 BC
2021-06-29 BC
Note: It was hot again today, so today’s postings are going to be short. I’ll try to catch up in the next few days. Mitigation Measures/Press Briefing The headline today, the major, blinking, 72-point font headline is that BC has moved to Step 3 of the Restart Plan, which takes away most of the restrictions… Continue reading 2021-06-29 BC
2021-06-25 BC
Vaccinations Here’s Justin McElroy’s weekly vax (first dose) by age charts. As always, the women are getting vaxxed more than the men. I was busy with stuff yesterday so didn’t describe my visit to the West End Community Center, escorting my favorite spouse. Observations, in no particular order: There was no waiting at all. It… Continue reading 2021-06-25 BC
2021-06-23 BC
Vaccines I have wondered how much vax is getting wasted. DrH has assured us a few times (several months ago) that it’s “very little”, but the reporters have not asked for numbers and it’s not in the data. Well, yesterday, Dix said something like “We only have around forty thousand doses of Pfizer right now”.… Continue reading 2021-06-23 BC
2021-06-17 BC
Mitigation Measures This article says that the province expects schools to open in September to “near-normal”. They expect there will still be daily health checks, with sick students and teachers staying home, but no more cohorts and learning groups. It sounds like they haven’t fully decided about masks. Press Briefing Today, they said: NACI said… Continue reading 2021-06-17 BC
2021-06-15 BC
Mitigation Measures The COVID rent freeze has been extended to the end of the year. Statistics Today: +108 cases, +0 deaths, +10,521 first doses, +44,038 second doses. Currently 139 in hospital / 39 in ICU, 1,496 active cases 143,299 recovered. We have 389,675 doses in fridges; we’ll use it up in 6.4 days at last… Continue reading 2021-06-15 BC