COVID-19 levels have still not gotten down to where we were in summer 2023, but pretty much all the indicators say that they are falling. Vaccines This article reports that 528,575 people — slightly over 10% of BC residents — have gotten a fall COVID-19 booster. 740,529 have gotten flu shots. It also says that… Continue reading 2023-11-03 BC
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2023-10-27 BC
Legal This article says that the Supreme Court of BC ruled that evidential discovery could still be done over videochat, even though the plaintiff argued that in person examination was once again the default mode of examination. The court basically said (paraphrasing heavily!), “so what, we saw it worked, no reason to dump Zoom calls… Continue reading 2023-10-27 BC
2023-10-20 BC
It sure looks like COVID-19 levels peaked and are heading down. Why? Beats me. Health Care System This article says that 48% of BC health care aid workers want to quit. Other Viruses I hear people say, “oh, it’s not COVID, it’s just a cold”? Check out the proportion of COVID in the BC CDC’s… Continue reading 2023-10-20 BC
2023-10-13 BC
Everything: cases, hospitalizations, wastewater — says that cases have peaked and are on the downswing. (Probably because school started. /sarcasm.) I find it odd that hospitalizations and cases peaked at the same time. Usually hospitalizations lag cases by two weeks. I don’t think it’s from the vax rollout — you could imagine that care homes… Continue reading 2023-10-13 BC
2023-10-06 BC
It’s looking bad, folks. We are now above the Delta-level of hospitalizations (and above the Delta-level of COVID-19 in wastewater, too). Statistics As of 5 Oct, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 30 Sept there were: +877 reported cases, +228 hospital admissions, +25 ICU admissions, +24 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.… Continue reading 2023-10-06 BC
2023-10-03 BC
Transmission It seems like almost all public health doctors talk about COVID-19 as being part of “respiratory season”, and that cases go up “as we congregate indoors”. Some people talk about cases going up when school is in session. But looking at the historical data for BC, I see no evidence for that. I have… Continue reading 2023-10-03 BC
2023-09-15 BC
I really don’t have much for y’all today. There’s not much BC-specific news this week. Wastewater The wastewater levels seem to have plateaued for no reason that I can think of. Maybe because kids are in school? (<- That’s a joke.)
2023-09-08 BC
COVID-19 cases are increasing, by pretty much every measure. Statistics As of Sept 7, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 2 Sept there were: +447 reported cases, +119 hospital admissions, +17 ICU admissions, +12 thirty-day all-cause deaths*. In the week ending 26 Aug, there were: +366 reported cases, +136… Continue reading 2023-09-08 BC
2023-08-04 BC
This is going to be brief because I’m still superbusy. (There’s no accompanying General post today, sorry.) Vaccinations This article reports that Canada is still in the approval process for the fall booster update vax. I assume we’ll get the same shots as the US gets, which this article says are going to be monovalent… Continue reading 2023-08-04 BC
2023-07-07 BC
This is another brief update due to being ultrabusy right now. Hopefully these will be more complete in August. The news is actually good for a change! Pretty much every statistic makes it look like summer 2021. Now, there’s less testing, so take that with a grain of salt, but it’s clearly better now than… Continue reading 2023-07-07 BC