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:
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Vaccines This article reports that the province expects most residents will start getting the BA.1 boosters starting in October. Note that the wording was “most residents”. There is a small amount of this vax which is going to show up in-country tomorrow, and if it is distributed proportionate to population, BC should get about 100K… Continue reading week ending 2022-09-01 BC
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Charts Levels of COVID-19 in wastewater over time from Jeff’s spreadsheet using MetroVan data:
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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
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Charts COVID-19 levels in wastewater from Jeff’s spreadsheet: Vaccination uptake in BC over time through 14 August 2022, for first/second/third/fourth dose from the federal vax info page: Note that they don’t have a line yet for the 0-4 y/os, but from the legend, 4.4% of the littlest kids have gotten one shot.
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Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 13 Aug there were: +877 cases, +181 hospital admissions, +29 ICU admissions, +24 all-cause deaths. This week’s report said that the previous week (data through 6 Aug) there were: +899 cases, +226 hospital admissions, +39 ICU admissions, +40 all-cause deaths. Last week’s BC… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-18 BC
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Charts Jeff’s wastewater charts seem to show that COVID-19 levels are declining verrrrry slowly, maybe: They still are not good, however. You’ll note that the levels are currently higher than they were during any of the pre-Omicron waves.
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Vaccines The BC CDC dashboard shows that BC has received shipments of pediatric Moderna vax. This is the vax for kids 6 months to 5 years old. Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 6 Aug there were: +900 cases, +173 hospital admissions, +35 ICU admissions, +28 all-cause deaths.… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-11 BC
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Charts Metro Vancouver wastewater from Jeff’s spreadsheet: