Thread by @jvipondmd

Here's your AB COVID # analysis for Wed Jan 26th. 1/

(mostly irrelevant stat) Cases/d yest: 3496. Positivity 37.50% (last Tues 38.23%). 2/

Hospitalization: Inpt: Last Tues +14 to 1071 (revised from 1070 yest 1043 Fri 1031 Thurs and 993 Wed) Wed +35 to 1106 (revised from 1103 yest 1068 Fri and 1023 Thurs) Thurs +52 to 1158 (revised from 1153 yest and 1084 Fri). 3/

Fri +46 to 1204 (revised from 1197 yest), Sat +6 to 1210 (revised from 1198 yest) Sun +49 to 1259 (revised from 1241 yest), Mon +44 to 1303 (new pandemic record) (revised from 1266 yest) Yest -21 to 1309 (subj to revision). 7d rise to Fri of 34.6% (yest 38.4%). 4/

ICU Mon +2 to 113 (revised from 111 yest) (new #weararespiratorwave record). Yest -4 to 109 (subj to revision). 7d rise to Mon of 7.6%. Paeds admits 11 incl 1 to ICU (10-19 year old). 6/

Deaths 22. That's an awful lot for one day. Now getting daily deaths of around 13-15/day. As a lagging indicator this will surely rise going forward. Higher deaths than 3rd wave, unsure where this will peak (still worried deaths may be even laggier for Omicron that past waves. 7/

Today Denmark announced a new "let 'er rip" policy, removing all pandemic restrictions on Feb 1st (next Tuesday). This apparently was based on their ICU curve, which has remarkably plummetted in the last few weeks. 8/ ft.com/content/789f07…

This is despite massive ongoing exponential growth, probably driven by the new unnamed variant BA.2 (now >50% of Denmark's cases). 9/

and rapid growth of inpt hospitalizations (similar to back home here). 10/

And deaths still generally climbing slowly. 11/

As for any variant it will be keen to watch the countries with early cases. (France being the other one). I fear where the Let 'er Rip strategy will take Denmark, and of course, Canada. Watch this space. fin/

Thanks to AB Health and @ArynToombs for the graphics.