Modelling The BC COVID-19 Modelling Group has released another report. They say that BC is undercounting COVID-19 deaths: They say that, based on serology data, the province is undercounting cases by about a factor of 100x (this is consistent with a report that some UBC scholars including Dr. Henry) published. I am as convinced in… Continue reading week ending 2022-10-06 BC
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Charts From Jeff’s spreadsheets:
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Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 24 September August there were: +635 cases, +150 hospital admissions, +30 ICU admissions, +16 all-cause deaths. This week’s report said that the previous week (data through 17 September) there were: +636 cases, +203 hospital admissions, +29 ICU admissions, +31 all-cause deaths. Last week’s… Continue reading week ending 2022-09-29 BC
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Here are the wastewater charts from Jeff’s spreadsheet: Note: last weeks’ chart was the same as two weeks ago because I uh didn’t realize I needed to refresh the Google Sheets page. (In my defense, Google Docs updates without refreshing.)
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Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 17 September August there were: +637 cases, +155 hospital admissions, +27 ICU admissions, +22 all-cause deaths. This week’s report said that the previous week (data through 10 September) there were: +574 cases, +180 hospital admissions, +31 ICU admissions, +26 all-cause deaths. Last week’s… Continue reading week ending 2022-09-22 BC
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Charts From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet, the wastewater looks stable (aside from random fluctuations): In the most recent Situation Report, they noted that the Lion’s Gate data recently has been flakey and they are looking into it, to try to figure out if it’s something funky with the plant. (<- No, they did not say it… Continue reading 2022-09-16 BC tiny
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
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Charts COVID-19 in BC wastewater looks stable but noisy (from Jeff’s spreadsheet):
week ending 2022-09-08 BC
Press Briefing The province had a press briefing on Tuesday (6 September) on the fall booster campaign. There were not a lot of surprises. Here’s what they said. They talked about the timing. They said that the boosters are most effective in the eight to twelve weeks after the shot. Because flu is worst in… Continue reading week ending 2022-09-08 BC
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Charts COVID-19 levels in wastewater are either plateauing or declining verrrrry slowly. From Jeff’s spreadsheet: