Wastewater from my buddy Jeff’s spreadsheets using Metro Van data. The COVID levels are still dropping. Vancouver is at about half of its Delta peak, but Fraser, North Shore, and Richmond are all still running close to 3x of their Delta peak. The mix of variants from the BC CDC Variant of Concern report: This… Continue reading 2022-06-17 BC tiny
week ending 2022-06-16 BC
Still better, still not good. Governance This article mostly focuses on how VCH wouldn’t hand over documents to the press, but there are some kind of scary things buried in there. It makes it sound like hospitals were not actually very healthy. (Here’s a story from October on the same document request at Fraser Health,… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-16 BC
2022-06-10 BC tiny
Reminder: I put this tiny post out on Fridays because I think wastewater level data is really important. Wastewater level is one of the few data sources that can’t be manipulated. Charts Here are the wastewater charts from my buddy Jeff’s spreadsheet. They show things getting better, but it’s still not good. It’s still not… Continue reading 2022-06-10 BC tiny
week ending 2022-06-16 General
Long COVID This article about Long COVID in the US is interesting. It says that a lot of the indicators which you would expect to see Long COVID shift (e.g. number of disability claims, health care expenditures), have not in fact shifted. The article gives a number of possiblities: A lot of disabled people died… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-16 General
week ending 2022-06-09 BC
Things are still getting better and they are still not good. The number in hospital — which is one of the only pieces of data which I trust these days — is now finally clearly lower than it was during the Delta wave. Mitigation Measures This article reports that someone is suing the province for… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-09 BC
week ending 2022-06-09 General
Vaccines This article reports that Moderna got really good results with a clinical trial of a booster with half COVID Classic-based plus Omicron-based vax. Moderna says they think it will be available in late summer/fall. According to this tweet, it is better to get vaccines in the morning than in the afternoon. This paper is… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-09 General
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Charts From my buddy Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet: It does look like things are getting better, but they are still not good. The wastewater levels for Vancouver and Fraser are still higher than they were during the Delta wave: From the Government of Canada’s vaccination page, vaccination rates by age over time for one, two, or… Continue reading 2022-06-03 BC tiny
week ending 2022-06-02 BC
It looks like things are improving, but they are still not good. The number in hospital is still higher than the max of the Delta wave. FYI, they aren’t good in the USA, either, and they are getting worse in a lot of places. For example, Seattle (yellow is cases, red is deaths; line is… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-02 BC
week ending 2022-06-02 General
Long COVID I was puzzled for a long time: all the statistics I saw said that Long COVID was really common — from 5% to 50%, depending on which study you looked at — but I didn’t know anybody with Long COVID! How could this be? I thought maybe it was because my echo chamber… Continue reading week ending 2022-06-02 General
2022-05-27 BC tiny
Testing Here’s this week’s wastewater charts, from my buddy Jeff’s spreadsheet: Fraser is now clearly going down. Vancouver might be going up, but that might just be noise. North Shore, Richmond, and Langley are looking stable. Note that while the levels are declining, they still aren’t good. They are still two or three times what… Continue reading 2022-05-27 BC tiny