The number of cases per week continues to increase. 1/ #covidbc
The current wave started with the young (20-29), but it is expanding to other age demographics 2/
Assuming that the current second wave started on June 1st, the cumulative cases point to a doubling time of ~20 days 3/
This is the first full week of school for the kids. Is it safe? From the Harvard guideline for school reopening they recommend to look at the new cases per 100k per day (globalepidemics.org/wp-content/upl…) 4/
last week we were at around 3-4 new cases per 100,000 per day in Vancouver and Fraser, but it is rising. 5/
1. A new sobering update on the #OmicronVarient (variant) from the HA in South Africa moments ago. Two main things stand out. The case numbers are growing much faster than before, and the demographics of hospital admissions is changing.
3. A better representation would've been to use a log scale in the y-axis, as you can see that by doing that you can clearly see the difference in growth rates between previous waves and this one. I added US as comparison, adjusting by population. You can see the problem here.