Editor’s note: I haven’t posted frequently in the past eight weeks because I have been super-busy. That will probably continue through the end of July; it hopefully will ease up a bit in August. All the indicators say that the incidence of COVID-19 is going down. It’s not clear how trustworthy these indicators are, but… Continue reading 2023-06-19 BC
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2023-05-30 BC
Local Industry This article says that AbCellera — which made Bamlanivimab and Bebtelovimab, two of the anti-COVID monoclonal antibodies — is doubling the size of its planned expansion in Vancouver, thanks in part to federal and provincial subsidies. This article says that BC Ferries says that it is working hard to hire more crew (including… Continue reading 2023-05-30 BC
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Hospitals This article reports that Burnaby Hospital had a third COVID outbreak in three weeks. It mentioned that they are doing “enhanced cleaning” — but are they wearing masks again? Are they filtering the air? Statistics I refreshed the Situation Report, expecting to see nothing, but instead saw: Data presented are up to the end… Continue reading 2023-05-21 BC small
2023-05-04 BC
Statistics Wait, what??? There’s a note on the respiratory diseases page saying, “The final update of the respiratory season was on May 4. Respiratory updates will resume in the fall. COVID-19 reporting will continue through the summer.” I thought they were going to move updates to once per month, not stop them completely. ARG! And… Continue reading 2023-05-04 BC
2023-04-20 BC
The province is reducing how often it releases data. They next data release will be on 4 May 2023. Statistics As of today, the BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 15 April there were: +519 reported cases, +152 hospital admissions, +27 ICU admissions, +19 thirty-day all-cause deaths*. As of today, the weekly… Continue reading 2023-04-20 BC
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Transmission This article quotes someone from the federally-funded Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network (i.e. they probably know what they are talking about) who says that 2% of people in BC are contagious with COVID-19 right now. But maybe the CVRRN is too pessimistic? Well, this twitter thread (by someone who has traditionally been more pessimistic… Continue reading 2023-04-17 BC small
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Wastewater In yesterday’s BC post, I mentioned that the wastewater data didn’t match last week’s. At yesterday’s press conference (see below, which I missed because I didn’t know it was happening, then it took a while to find good video footage of it), the province said they have re-tested all of their historical samples of… Continue reading 2023-04-07 BC small
2023-04-06 BC
Mitigation Measures This article reports that the province has lifted several mitigation measures: Dr. Henry did say that some mitigation measures might return in the fall. Yeah, good luck with putting that cat back in that bag. Somehow I missed it, but this article from 21 March 2023 says that the Vancouver City Council made… Continue reading 2023-04-06 BC
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From Jeff’s spreadsheet, with data from MetroVan:
2023-03-30 BC
Statistics As of today, the BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 23 March there were: +456 reported cases, +135 hospital admissions, +29 ICU admissions, +18 thirty-day all-cause deaths*. As of today, the weekly report said that the previous week (data through March 18) there were: +405 reported cases, +143 hospital admissions, +23… Continue reading 2023-03-30 BC