Charts From my friend Jeff’s spreadsheet:
week ending 2022-10-06 BC
Modelling The BC COVID-19 Modelling Group has released another report. They say that BC is undercounting COVID-19 deaths: They say that, based on serology data, the province is undercounting cases by about a factor of 100x (this is consistent with a report that some UBC scholars including Dr. Henry) published. I am as convinced in… Continue reading week ending 2022-10-06 BC
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Mitigation Measures As this article reports, all travel restrictions have been waived in Canada. No proof of vaccination, no masks on planes, etc. HOWEVER, reminder, non-USA citizens arriving in the US by air still have to be vaccinated (per this US government site). This report is from the US (about Ohio and Florida, specifically) and… Continue reading week ending 2022-10-06 General
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Charts From Jeff’s spreadsheets:
week ending 2022-09-29 BC
Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 24 September August there were: +635 cases, +150 hospital admissions, +30 ICU admissions, +16 all-cause deaths. This week’s report said that the previous week (data through 17 September) there were: +636 cases, +203 hospital admissions, +29 ICU admissions, +31 all-cause deaths. Last week’s… Continue reading week ending 2022-09-29 BC
week ending 2022-09-29 General
Mitigation Measures This press release from the Government of Canada says that all border restrictions — ALL — are dropped as of 1 October 2022. They are also dropping mask requirements on planes and trains. This paper tells how to do mask fit-testing at home. This paper from Nov 2021 says that the death rate… Continue reading week ending 2022-09-29 General
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Here are the wastewater charts from Jeff’s spreadsheet: Note: last weeks’ chart was the same as two weeks ago because I uh didn’t realize I needed to refresh the Google Sheets page. (In my defense, Google Docs updates without refreshing.)
week ending 2022-09-22 BC
Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 17 September August there were: +637 cases, +155 hospital admissions, +27 ICU admissions, +22 all-cause deaths. This week’s report said that the previous week (data through 10 September) there were: +574 cases, +180 hospital admissions, +31 ICU admissions, +26 all-cause deaths. Last week’s… Continue reading week ending 2022-09-22 BC
week ending 2022-09-22 General
Vaccines This paper says that there is a blood-olfactory barrier (similar to the blood-brain barrier) and that blood-borne antibodies can’t get to the olfactory epithelium (mucous membrane lining). (Note that SARS-CoV-2 can get to the brain via the olfactory bulb. !!) That suggests that we are never going to get to sterilizing immunity (i.e. you… Continue reading week ending 2022-09-22 General
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Charts From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet, the wastewater looks stable (aside from random fluctuations): In the most recent Situation Report, they noted that the Lion’s Gate data recently has been flakey and they are looking into it, to try to figure out if it’s something funky with the plant. (<- No, they did not say it… Continue reading 2022-09-16 BC tiny