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21 Apr, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Healthcare workers keep telling me BC hospitals are in worse shape than govt COVID stats suggest, even though we saw a new record today.
Assmts on the floor, beds in halls, but @VCHhealthcare isn’t opening the field hospital at Convention Centre. More: ⬇️
bc.ctvnews.ca/at-a-breaking-…
The many precautions in this piece are still in effect

bc.ctvnews.ca/lonely-exhaust…
Remember, hospital doctors have been raising the alarm for weeks

bc.ctvnews.ca/it-really-hit-…
And it’s been a month since we started hearing urgent warnings the patience they’re seeing are younger

bc.ctvnews.ca/drowning-on-la…
Both @drmattchow & @csorensen4 made important contributions to my piece for @CTVVancouver on the reality for healthcare workers at the front lines right now, and I’m deeply grateful to them & their colleagues who are doing such gruelling work. Thank you.

bc.ctvnews.ca/at-a-breaking-…
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9 Apr
Seeing some inconsistencies in government messaging around testing in BC right now. @Fraserhealth just issued a bulletin urging those with even mild symptoms to go straight for a test, and “Fraser Health has testing capacity.”
Their website supports this.
fraserhealth.ca/health-topics-…
What happens when you go to the provincial self assessment tool? It tells you to stay home and call 811 with mild to moderate shortness of breath. You need to select at least 2 symptoms from the subsequent list for direction to a test. bc.thrive.health/covid19/en
The @CDCofBC website has this handy chart with the latest guidance, which is in line with the Thrive screening geared at the most serious symptoms, unless you have more than one. Shouldn’t we test with any of these symptoms? We have the capacity to do a lot more tests.
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8 Apr
MORE: From now on, Dr. Henry says they'll assume anyone who's tested positive for COVID has a variant because they've become so common.
The strategy now will essentially be spot-testing to see which variants are becoming dominant and may cause re-infection and/or escape vaccines.
This is good background on this issue of percentages, which are much likely higher than officials are revealing.
bc.ctvnews.ca/researchers-be…
This is scary: BC is now seeing entire families in hospital, with parents in ICU and their adult kids in COVID wards.

Some hospital ICUs are overflowing. My heart goes out to healthcare workers on the front lines.
And yet, no new widespread restrictions.
bc.ctvnews.ca/it-really-hit-…
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7 Apr
When Dr. Henry said ON is about a month ahead of BC in terms of variants, I asked her whether we should be proactive and take the similar measures now rather than wait a month -- especially given concerns doctors are raising about overflowing ICUs ⬇️
bc.ctvnews.ca/it-really-hit-…
I also pointed out she seemed to be minimizing the presence and impact of variants here, but she insisted they're treating each case as if it's a variant & responding aggressively.
A few things to unpack. Let's start w testing, which is consistent low despite more cases: ImageImageImage
DBH said contact tracing continues and providing help to isolate from family/roommates also being done, which is great. But is that a response commensurate with the surge we've seen, which is being driven by variants? She insists they're doing that "as aggressively as we can".
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8 Feb
COVID variants are a major concern for health officials right now -- not to mention the rest of us.
I'm seeing a lot of ?s about how BC is testing for them so here's a thread w FAQs and info directly from a @CDCofBC environmental microbiologist who spoke with @CTVVancouver . 1/x
First, if you want a quick 2 minute rundown in video format about how many variants we have in BC, what's going on, and the testing info, watch this: bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-up-to-28-i… 2/x
We spoke with Natalie Prystajecky, the program head for the environmental microbiology program at the BCCDC public health lab. She had a really great way of explaining what's they do.
A HUGE point to know: only a handful of labs in the country can test for COVID varriants. 3/x
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