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6 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
News out of Prince Rupert continues to be good.

Two months ago, it was the hotspot for transmission in British Columbia.

85% of adults were given a vaccine shot.

Weekly #COVID19 cases fell from more than 100 to 3.

Then they went to 2.

Last week, there was ONE CASE.
everyone says bring back the boring chart but really let's have the prince rupert chart for the entire province
More good news!

One month ago, the B.C.'s transmission hotspot was Whistler.

Everyone there was given a chance to get a shot.

There were 410 cases in their local health area at the peak.

Last week, there were 39.

A 95% reduction, three weeks after mass vaccination.
(i am not making that chart right now because i need to go on an errand now but just imagine one of those charts where the line goes down sharply and smile)

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Justin McElroy Profile picture
7 May
722 cases of #COVID19 announced in B.C. today — the 19th straight day the province's rolling average has gone down, though this time only by a tiny bit.

Hospitalizations down to 445, and seven new deaths, highest since April 21.

Today's chart. Image
46,946 people received vaccine shots in B.C. yesterday (2nd highest in the campaign), including 3,605 second doses, the highest mark since February.

We're on pace for every adult getting their first dose in the next five weeks. ImageImage
We've gone from 60-70 hospitalizations a day in B.C. to 30-50, which is why we're now seeing this decrease.

At the same time, it means we're still going to be over 300 hospitalizations, concentrated heavily in Fraser Health, for a while yet. Image
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7 May
Since today's emergency press conference on #COVID19 data in B.C. is telephone only, I'm going to use this thread to livetweet the questions and answers in a straightforward fashion, instead of the usual charts/context/jokes approach
Dr. Réka Gustafson begins the press conference, says she's going to "raise some awareness" on the public health surveillance done by B.C.

Explains how data is used for making decisions.

"It's an established process, and with every week and day we try to improve it."
Gustafson says the province "makes as much of the data as possible … available publicly."

Says "there has been a particular interest in the data".

Dr. Henry says the data "is for decision making" and there is weekly technical meetings.
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7 May
again, it's frankly embarrassing

Just say you don't want to share the information with the public instead of insultingly stringing along journalists for months.
What's probably going to happen is the government will provide information on neighbourhood case counts at some point in the near future.

They will applaud themselves for being transparent.
on a related note, the bccdc dashboard (which the government often trumpets as the way they are transparent) is having a "systems" issue for the third time in four days

it's fun, it's fun, i love it here
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6 May
684 new cases of #COVID19 announced in B.C. today, as the province's rolling average and active case count continues decline at a steady pace.

Hospitalizations now down to 457, the lowest since April 20.

One new death.

Today's chart. Image
A RECORD HIGH 52,266 people in B.C. were given a vaccine shot yesterday, as the doubling of Pfizer vaccine is starting to show dividends.

2,200 of those were second shots, and we'll start to see that number increase in the coming weeks. ImageImage
Dr. Henry tried to centre today's announcement on B.C. getting to two million doses administered at some point today.

Celebrating big round numbers is fun, but providing regular data on vaccinations by age and city is even funner.
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5 May
572 cases of #COVID19 in B.C. today, the lowest number since March 20, as B.C.'s curve continues to bend down at a VERY encouraging pace.

Hospitalizations down to 481, and zero new deaths.

Today's chart.
33,068 people given a vaccine shot in B.C. yesterday, 1,412 of which were a second dose — highest number since early March.

Stilllllll waiting for that ramp up in daily numbers which *should* happen very soon now.
Because of a data correction, the charts record negative three #COVID19 deaths in B.C. today.

(the province says there were zero)

As you can see, it doesn't change the rolling average all that substantially for the moment.
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5 May
It's Wednesday, which means detailed hospitalization numbers in B.C. dropped.

Once again, a big change in cases to "young people" did not happen.

As hospitalizations plummet in people 80+, the dominant age brackets reflected are those in their 60s and 70s.
Over the course of the pandemic, just over 11% of all ICU cases of #COVID19 in B.C. were in people under the age of 40.

In the most recent week of data, it was 7%.
I keep pointing out this lack of change in health outcomes and case counts in the 3rd wave for a couple of reasons.

One is Horgan, "don't blow this", and all that jazz.

But the other is many people were very confident something was happening in B.C., or about to happen.
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