Long COVID This article reports on this (difficult-for-lay-people-to-understand) research report which says that Long COVID patients had an imbalance in the clot-promoting and clot-removing proteins in the blood. (Note: in the Recommended Reading section, there’s a link to a long article on clotting and Long COVID.) Pathology This paper says that physical exercise makes your… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-25 General
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Charts COVID-19 levels in wastewater from Jeff’s spreadsheet: Vaccination uptake in BC over time through 14 August 2022, for first/second/third/fourth dose from the federal vax info page: Note that they don’t have a line yet for the 0-4 y/os, but from the legend, 4.4% of the littlest kids have gotten one shot.
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Live Attenuated Virus Vaccines This paper from Massachusetts found that vaccination with the tuberculosis BCG vaccine gave a 92% efficacy against COVID-19. (Also see this mass media article, which talks about other studies too.) BCG is a live attenuated virus vaccine (LAV); I’ve talked about LAVs before and how they appear to boost the innate… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-18 General
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Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 13 Aug there were: +877 cases, +181 hospital admissions, +29 ICU admissions, +24 all-cause deaths. This week’s report said that the previous week (data through 6 Aug) there were: +899 cases, +226 hospital admissions, +39 ICU admissions, +40 all-cause deaths. Last week’s BC… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-18 BC
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Charts Jeff’s wastewater charts seem to show that COVID-19 levels are declining verrrrry slowly, maybe: They still are not good, however. You’ll note that the levels are currently higher than they were during any of the pre-Omicron waves.
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Mitigation Measures This paper from eastern Massachusetts found that school districts which dropped mask mandates right away had 44 cases of COVID-19 per 1000 students/staff (accounting for 30% of cases) compared to schools which kept masks. (Before they were allowed to drop mask mandates, the case rates were similar.) Here’s a Twitter thread with an… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-11 General
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Vaccines The BC CDC dashboard shows that BC has received shipments of pediatric Moderna vax. This is the vax for kids 6 months to 5 years old. Statistics This week’s BC CDC weekly report said that in the week ending on 6 Aug there were: +900 cases, +173 hospital admissions, +35 ICU admissions, +28 all-cause deaths.… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-11 BC
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Charts Metro Vancouver wastewater from Jeff’s spreadsheet:
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Unexpected Consequences This article reports that bike riders hospitalized because of accidents went up ~25% in the first year of the pandemic, despite all-hospitalizations-from-accidents going down slightly and car traffic decreasing by 25%. (Bicycle traffic increased by 48%, so some of the increase in accidents could certainly be from more bikes on the road as… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-04 BC
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Variants The current data, while confusing and somewhat contradictory, at least shows that our wave is not getting lots worse, and might even be going down. This seems really strange, when compared to how many other jurisdictions have gotten hammered. According to this blog post, the US had large shares of BA.2.12.1 — which shares… Continue reading week ending 2022-08-04 General