Transmission In today’s BC Ministry of Health press conference, Dr. Henry said that she thought that cases were going to start to come down soon. A reporter challenged her on that, given that we only have data from South Africa, which has very different demographics. Dr.H said that the data from the UK is also… Continue reading 2022-01-11 BC
Category: Statistics
2022-01-08/09/10 BC
Staff Shortages This article says that almost half of the ambulances in the Lower Mainland have been idle recently from lack of staff. Statistics Fri/Sat: +2,573 cases Sat/Sun: +2,287 cases Sun/Mon: +2,106 cases 7 deaths over the weekend; approximately +4,199 first doses, +937 second doses, +36,154 other doses per day. Currently 431 in hospital /… Continue reading 2022-01-08/09/10 BC
2022-01-07 BC
Statistics +3,144 cases, +9 deaths, +3,694 first doses, +1,719 second doses, +46,549 other doses. Test positivity is 22.3%. Currently 349 in hospital / 93 in ICU, 33,184 active cases, 240,198 recovered. first doses second doses third doses of adults 92.5% 89.8% 25.2% of over-12s 92.1% 89.4% 23.5% of over-5s 88.5% 83.1% * of all BCers… Continue reading 2022-01-07 BC
2022-01-06 BC
Testing The province has opened up a mass vax clinic at the Vancouver Convention Centre, and whatever they are doing is working: the province gave just over 50K doses yesterday. That’s good. HOWEVER, the Vancouver Convention Centre was really snarled today, according to first-hand reports and also this article. There was a 20 minute wait… Continue reading 2022-01-06 BC
2022-01-05 BC
Statistics +3,798 cases, +0 deaths (yay!), +2,885 first doses, +1,593 second doses, +36,895 other doses. Currently 317 in hospital / 83 in ICU, 29,967 active cases, 237,195 recovered, 26.1% positivity. first doses second doses third doses of adults 92.4% 89.7% 23.1% of over-12s 92.0% 89.3% 21.5% of over-5s 88.3% 83.0% * of all BCers 86.0%… Continue reading 2022-01-05 BC
2022-01-01/02/03/04 BC
Press Briefing It was kind of a dull briefing, it didn’t tell me much that I didn’t know. Highlights which were new: Transmission is so high right now that businesses really need to focus on business continuity. Figure out now what you are going to do when a third of your staff is out sick.… Continue reading 2022-01-01/02/03/04 BC
2021-12-31 BC
Press Briefing There was a press briefing today that I missed because my lazy ass was still in bed. From Twitter, apparently the high points were: They are dropping the age part of the booster eligibility priority queue (mostly) and are going to go strictly on time-based, with everybody at 6 months since their second… Continue reading 2021-12-31 BC
2021-12-30 BC
Mitigation Measures This article says that American anti-vaxxer and media personality Joe Rogan cancelled a show in BC, presumably because Canada won’t let him onstage without a vaccine. (Go Canada!) Statistics Today: +4,383 cases, +1 death, +3,475 first doses, +1,750 second doses, +25,646 other doses. The positivity rate was 28.6% (although note that they are… Continue reading 2021-12-30 BC
2021-12-29 BC
Press Briefing Stuff they said that I’m not sure I’ve mentioned before: Omicron’s incubation period — the time from infection to infectious — is about three days, vs. six for previous variants. By the time you get symptoms and get tested, it’s too late. With two doses of vax, you are much more likely to… Continue reading 2021-12-29 BC
2021-12-27/28 BC
Testing This article says that any self-reported positives on rapid antigen tests which get submitted via the province’s survey (which I posted a few days ago) do not get reported in the province’s daily numbers. (I guess that’s because if they did, malicious actors would artificially inflate the numbers?) There is a user-driven site where… Continue reading 2021-12-27/28 BC