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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

11 Dec

OK a lot of COVID-19 stuff has been happening today in Northern B.C. so here's my best attempt at gathering it into a single thread. #cityofPG #bcpoli

First the big news: a rapid-response team is in Fort St. James, two hours away from Prince George, as there is a major cluster of cases there. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

This morning, BC Emergency Health Services said they'd been told 60 active cases in the community. I was told that number was accurate by a health care person in the community. But as of this afternoon, Northern Health says the active case count is approx. 40 active in Omineca

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

10 Dec

1 in 25 people have COVID-19 in a small, rural community. Did residents get a warning from health officials? No, because that would violate "privacy". Instead they find out when an emergency team is deployed because local paramedics are overwhelmed #bcpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

Literally since the beginning of this pandemic local officials and First Nations have been pleading with the B.C. government to release more local health data in line with what people get in nearly every other province in Canada. There has been an outright refusal to do. Now this

I said this yesterday but you have to understand: Health officials would have seen case counts rising in Fort St. James. They would have seen it go from 1 in 50 people to 1 in 30 to 1 in 25 and still, nobody thought that the people who live there had a right to know #bcpoli

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

9 Dec

Tomorrow I have a story coming out about DIY contact tracing. A teacher found out his child had been exposed to COVID last Tuesday, his wife had symptoms the same day and he had them Wednesday. But it wasn't until today that anyone else was notified by public health. #COVID19BC

Instead this couple took it upon themselves to reach out to colleagues and contacts. It means one person who was potentially exposed and contagious went into isolation a full week earlier than they would have had they waited for contact tracers.

The teacher also asked on Tuesday— when his wife was syptomatic and they knew their kid had been exposed — if he should stay home Wednesday. He was told no, but opted to anyways. It wasn't until Wednesday evening he showed syptoms, but he is confirmed to have had COVID-19.

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

21 Nov

It's Friday night twitter so I'm gonna go on a little rant here about the government secrecy and COVID-19

Someone died of COVID- where did they live?

There is a care home outbreak. How many people have died there?

How many ICU beds are there in northern B.C.?

If you thought the public should have access to any of that information you'd be wrong, based on government patterns

How many cases in schools?

What about infections in healthcare workers?

Again, no.

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

19 Nov

14 workers test positive for COVID-19 at LNG Canada worksite in Kitimat, B.C. cbc.ca/1.5808832

There have been calls for work camps to shut down since the beginning of this crisis. The former head of the Northern Health Authority called them "essentially land locked cruise ships" alaskahighwaynews.ca/opinion/letter…

Instead, though, the province worked with industrial groups to put safety protocols in place. For LNG Canada's part, it reduced its workforce by about 50 per cent to reduce contacts for those remaining in camp cbc.ca/1.5500429

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

18 Nov

There is now a COVID-19 outbreak at Peace Villa in Fort St. John. This is the second care home outbreak in Northern B.C. Two people have already died at Rotary Manor in Dawson Creek where an outbreak is still active. #yxj #ydq

Northern Health says it's a single staff member with no evidence of transmission, which is exactly what was said when an outbreak was declared at Rotary Manor which spread to multiple staff members and residents and has killed at least two

So this is why rising COVID case counts are worth paying attention to, not just hospitalizations. Here's what B.C.'s Peace region looked like at the end of October. In the weeks since the virus has made its way into two care homes and at least two residents have died.

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