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.
The number of cases beyond Hope is pretty consistently under 100 a day now, and dropping, and that's really exciting to see.

There are still way too many cases in Fraser Health, and the vaccination push has to continue there.

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8 May
I think the thing about reporters increasingly showing their frustration with B.C.'s transparency is that pretty much everybody has changed their lives in huge ways to deal with a deadly pandemic, and the province's communications strategy seems to have stayed the same.
Taking hours to provide information to some requests and weeks for others, providing data only when it can have a shiny bow on it, hearing requests for transparency changes and sticking with the status quo...that's politics.

Most reporters, at a certain level, accept that.
So you'll make a note in your story that the government didn't respond, or that B.C. lags behind province X in metric Y, or that you haven't gotten your FOI back, and move on. There's another story to cover. The daily battle for information continues.
Read 8 tweets
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.
Read 29 tweets
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
Read 6 tweets
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.
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.
Read 4 tweets
6 May
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.
Read 4 tweets
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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