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.
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.
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.
I've been cautious of making too much of individual days where hospitalizations drop, because of how long the plateau was in the 2nd wave in B.C. and uncertainty around variants affecting health outcomes.
But a 11% drop in one week is encouraging progress.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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