And for the first time we have Transit Cape Breton bus routes, 7 of them:
There are, however no flights listed tonight.
I'll have the potential exposure map and the bus route & flights list updated later tonight.
I've updated the potential COVID exposure map. You can zoom in and click on the coronavirus icons to get details about each site: google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi…
I reported extensively on Glen Assoun, and that reporting became Season 7 of the Uncover podcast series. You can listen to it here (scroll down to season 7): cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod…
It's additionally unsettling because I am now in Ottawa for the Michener Awards, as I was a finalist for the 2019 awards for my reporting on Assoun. (Because of the pandemic and removal of the governor general, this is they're doing 4 years at once tomorrow.) ...
Right now, obviously, the immediate concern is for people who have lost their homes and animals. So devastating. We need to do what we can for them in the immediate short term. Beyond that, however...
We'll need serious analysis of emergency response procedures. I'm not faulting firefighters here, but rather notification systems, staffing, like that. And then...
Building and zoning codes. Many people have said some of the subdivisions affected have only one exit point, which is obviously a problem (I thought this was outlawed, so maybe these are older? I don't know)...
For the first time in a very long time, Nova Scotia is reporting no new COVID deaths in its weekly update. That's no new deaths during the April 4-10 reporting period AND no new deaths before the reporting period. A caveat... /thread
I don't know if the long Easter weekend affected the discovery of and/or reporting of deaths. We'll have a better picture when the monthly report comes out Monday.
Regardless, so far through the pandemic, 832 Nova Scotians have died from COVID, 346 of whom have died since July 1, 2022.
Nova Scotia is announcing 25 new COVID deaths recorded during the most recent reporting period, Feb. 7-13 /thread
Now we play the date game: 24 of those 25 deaths occurred before the reporting period, that is, before Feb. 7, and "just" 1 occurred in the reporting period, but of course there likely were many more deaths in the reporting period that won't be reported until future reports
This is no small matter. When I asked Health Minister about the 27 deaths newly reported last week, she said: "I don't believe that all of those deaths were reported in that one week period. Right. They are from previous weeks." That doesn't mean we should ignore them.
The Thistle Street sidewalk was plowed this morning. As happens after EVERY SNOWFALL, the wind across the Dartmouth High football field is redepositing the snow on the sidewalk. It will get worse as the day(s) go by. /short annoying thread
The solution to this is not for me to call 911 after EVERY SNOWFALL.
Nor is the solution even for the company contracted to plow the sidewalk to return after EVERY SNOWFALL and plow again (although it should).
Rather...
The solution is to put up a snow fence that keeps the windblown snow from redepositing on the sidewalk after EVERY SNOWFALL. @SamAustinD5
Nova Scotia is reporting TWENTY-SEVEN (27) deaths from COVID, recorded during the most recent reporting period, Jan. 31- Feb. 6. /thread
25 of those 27 deaths occurred before the reporting period — that is, before Jan. 31. The reporting of COVID deaths lags, and so there most likely were more deaths after Jan. 31, which we'll learn about in future reports.
So far in the pandemic, 753 Nova Scotians have died from COVID, 641 of whom are considered Omicron deaths (since Dec. 8, 2021).