Tourism This article says that Canada will allow cruise ships to land in Canada again in November. Statistics +54 cases, +1 death, +6,932 first doses, +62,521 second doses (284 AZ). Currently 63 in hospital / 12 in ICU, 650 active cases, 145,859 recovered. first doses second doses of adults 80.5% 51.9% of over-12s 79.4% 48.6%… Continue reading 2021-07-15 BC
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2021-07-14 BC
Variants I and a friend have been puzzling together about the drop in VOC cases in BC. One possibility is that COVID Classic is increasing its market share, which seems unlikely. A more likely explanation is that Variants of Interest are circulating but they have not yet been declared Variants of Concern. An obvious suspect… Continue reading 2021-07-14 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
2021-07-11 BC
Economy This article says that BC’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.6% in June, down from 7% in May and 7.1% in April. However, full-time work is down.
2021-07-10 BC
Vaccine clinics I’ve been grousing about WHY ISN’T THE PROVINCE VAXXING FASTER, but I think I understand why now. The max day of 82K? That might not have been a the one-day result: it might include doses from previous days which just didn’t get logged properly. (On Thursday, the province logged 93K doses, and it… Continue reading 2021-07-10 BC
2021-07-09 BC
Excess Deaths As you might recall, there was a report that I talked about at length in the 2021-07-05 BC blog post which said that the BC COVID-19 death rate was higher than reported. Now, every jurisdiction’s COVID-19 death rate is going to be higher than reported. (There will be some COVID-19 deaths which got… Continue reading 2021-07-09 BC
2021-07-08 BC
Statistics Today: +59 cases, +1 death, +93,103 doses, +10,159 first doses, +82,944 second doses (of which 528 were AZ). NB: These numbers are so high compared to what we’ve been doing, that I suspect that a bunch of vaccinations from the weekend got written on a piece of paper that fell behind the filing cabinet… Continue reading 2021-07-08 BC
2021-07-07 BC
Transmission From yesterday’s BCCDC Weekly Data Summary, most cases in June were in unvaccinated younger adults. Statistics Today: +56 cases, +0 deaths, +6,671 first doses, +57,120 second doses (513 of which were AZ). I started to freak out about there being a rise two days in a row, but then a friend reminded me that… Continue reading 2021-07-07 BC
2021-07-06 BC
Seroprevalence This tweet has this graph which references StatCan and says that the seroprevalence of COVID-19 in BC after the second wave was about 1.6 (with a possible range of 0.5% to 2.9%, eyeballing): This is very different from the 5 to 6% which this survey (that I reported on yesterday) found. I don’t know… Continue reading 2021-07-06 BC