Sports This article reports that three Canucks are “in the COVID-19 protocol”, meaning they are sick or have been exposed. But wait! This article says that a fourth went into protocol IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAME! Vaccines The Province reminds us that the first COVID-19 vaccine in the province was given one year ago.… Continue reading 2021-12-14 BC
Category: Press Briefing
2021-12-07 BC
Note: There probably will not be posts on Wednesday and Thursday. Press Conference Today is kind of a busy day today, so this discussion will be somewhat abbreviated. They have now identified five Omicron cases in BC and expect there to be more. The feds had identified 204 people originally who had recently travelled to… Continue reading 2021-12-07 BC
2021-11-30 BC
Press Briefing There was a lot today. Variants The province has a robust whole-genome sequencing (WGS) program. For a while, they were doing WGS on every single case. When the case counts went up, they decreased, but they still do every single case for one week for month, and samples in the other weeks. They… Continue reading 2021-11-30 BC
2021-11-23 BC
Press Briefing I missed the first half of the briefing, and it didn’t look interesting enough to catch up on. I gather that they mostly talked about the vax for kids 5-11. The vax will arrive tomorrow, first invites will go out on Sunday, and kids will start getting vaxxed on Monday. Dix/Henry/Ballem dodged questions… Continue reading 2021-11-23 BC
2021-11-16 BC
Mitigation Measures This article reports that people in BC who can’t get where they need to go for essential purposes (e.g. get home, go shopping) except via the US are exempted from the test or quarantine rule on re-entry to Canada. Press Briefing At today’s briefing: Dr. H said that the province is seeing a… Continue reading 2021-11-16 BC
2021-11-09 BC
Press Briefing The press briefing today was really dull. About the only piece of news was that BC is going to get a small amount of J&J (from Europe, not that trash that came from Baltimore), and they are going to offer it first to health care workers who have not gotten vaccinated and who… Continue reading 2021-11-09 BC
2021-11-04 BC
Karma This article says that Mak Parhar, a literal flat-earther and COVID-denier has died. While the official cause of death has not been determined blah blah, he had recently complained of symptoms which sure looked similar to COVID-19 symptoms. Press Briefing Today there was a briefing on modelling (slides, video). Briefly, because I am bored… Continue reading 2021-11-04 BC
2021-11-02 BC
Mitigation Measures This article does some calculations to say that not wearing a mask is like driving drunk five times. Yes, yes, it depends on all kinds of factors (how drunk? how far do you drive? what is the case rate in your city?), but the point is that not wearing a mask is the… Continue reading 2021-11-02 BC
2021-10-26 BC
Vaccines / Boosters I got to the briefing late, but other sources say that BC will offer booster to the general population starting in January. There’s no need to register again — you’ll get contacted (just like you were for your first and second doses) between six and eight months after your second dose. They… Continue reading 2021-10-26 BC
2021-10-19 BC
Long Term Care Homes This article says that the province has seized all the assets of Little Mountain Place Care Home (site of the worst LTCH outbreak) and its two sister LTCHs. Influenza Season Opener One way to reduce the pandemic burden is to not increase hospitals’ burden with influenza (and to not burden COVID-19… Continue reading 2021-10-19 BC