Just sitting here, entering #COVID19#Canada data, wondering if I've missed any recent expressions of concern from certain premiers about the wisdom of recent re-opening decisions.
Oh, I don't know, maybe from premiers of QC, ON, MB, SK?
Why you ask?
Well.....
@roussin_brent is looking forward to some light re-opening, when MB still has the highest per capita rate of #COVID19 hospitalizations in the country, a record held for months.
But look, SK might soon catch up.
Speaking of SK, @PremierScottMoe must be proud not only that SK is about to overtake MB for highest #COVID19 hospitalizations per capita in #Canada, but that SK is also just about to pass MB for total per capita cases in the epidemic.
Yes, that's since Feb 2020, not 2021.
Then there's @fordnation of ON, who's looking forward to getting back to business with hospitalizations at the same level they were on Jan 1, not long before ON overtook QC for the record as the province with the greatest number of total #COVID19 cases in the entire epidemic.
Yes, yes, I know. Per capita ON has had fewer total cases than QC, but I mean, that's not really a gold star comparison.
And then there's QC, which, well, just look at the graphs. Let's hope the fast LTC vaccination strategy pays off.
Apparently, not a care in the world about VOC (variants of concern). Publicly, of course, performative hand-wringing, maybe soon some tears accompanying pleas to folks to stay home & stop irresponsibly partying. But slowing reopening to buy time before VOC waves hit. Never!
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1 in 56 BC
1 in 74 AB
1 in 75 SK
1 in 36 MB
1 in 43 ON
1 in 27 QC
1 of every 5 Cdns w/ C19 in long-term, personal care & retirement homes has died
There are 14,4457 LTC cases in last 28 days ⬇️
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I'm simplifying these threads & will now show sliding window views of last 3 months of cumulative data for whole epidemic (except for province-specific summaries at end).
Rate of change graphs are provided for preceding 28 days to give a better sense of most recent dynamics.
Please note that though it's tempting to speculate about recent trends for long-term/personal care & retirement homes, reporting for this sector is VERY delayed & is almost always incomplete for preceding 3-4 weeks. The period of uncertainty is now highlighted in gray in graphs.
Many are feeling conflicted about posting vaccine selfies b/c of very real & important equity concerns.
But we cannot underestimate how important it is for people to see that we know the vaccines are safe & how life-changing it is to receive them.
I actually think we should keep posting these, but perhaps we can say that we'll only do this if simultaneously we advocate hard for transparent data reporting on progress on vaccination in vulnerable sectors, and then to improve this progress.
For example, here's QC is reporting daily on vaccination progress in high priority vulnerable sectors (example: cdn-contenu.quebec.ca/cdn-contenu/sa…). It's unacceptable that other provinces aren't doing this, b/c it allows them to hide progress on the most critical, widely accepted goals.
Do you want to be a resource supporting people with #COVID19 vaccine safety questions?
@COVID_19_Canada is running Zoom sessions from 8-10 nightly where volunteer scientists, physicians, pharmacists talk w/ anyone who drops in.
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We're well-staffed with volunteers for these nightly sessions, which are primarily for people working & linked to the LTC community.
However, at the request of unions & homes we're expanding to do scheduled sessions at other times of day.
Ultimately, we'd like to make drop-in & scheduled sessions available through much of day 7 days/wk & in multiple languages. Plus, expand to support ppl beyond LTC community.
We're not ready to scale up that big just yet, but I want to start signing up volunteers to help.