Statistics Fri/Sat: +2,383 casesSat/Sun: +1,733 casesSun/Mon: +1,509 cases Over weekend, around +7 deaths, approximately +3,471 first doses, +1,118 second doses, +44,082 other doses per day. Positivity rate of 14.5%. Currently 819 in hospital / 99 in ICU, 35,985 active cases, 257,677 recovered. first doses second doses third doses of adults 92.7% 90.1% 35.7% of over-12s… Continue reading 2022-01-17 BC
Category: Statistics
2022-01-14 BC
Press Briefing Today’s presser was more interesting than some recent ones (video, slides). DrH presented some good evidence that cases are dropping. She said she thought we peaked last weekend. Something I thought was interesting about this figure was they called out how VCH’s peak and London’s peaks were not pointy, saying it was because… Continue reading 2022-01-14 BC
2022-01-13 BC
Mitigation Measures This article says that UBC is delaying in-person classes until 7 Feb. This press release from the province says that businesses can now apply for grants of $1K-10K if they had to close on 22 Dec 2021. Vaccines This article says that pregnant people can now get a booster at 8 weeks. You… Continue reading 2022-01-13 BC
2022-01-12 BC
Transmission This article says that two schools had to close due to too many staff illnesses. This Twitter thread shows that SARS-CoV-2 in Metro Van wastewater looks like it is going down! Assholes This article says that anti-vaxxers have been paying vulnerable people to get vaccinated under other people’s names. This article says that RCMP… Continue reading 2022-01-12 BC
2022-01-11 BC
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
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