The story quotes a UBC mathematician who’s helped with official modelling and says these numbers are hard to measure, and I’ve mentioned a few times the limits of B.C.’s IT.
But I think it’s more germane that the government said something was accurate when it clearly wasn’t.
anyways i am sorry this has nothing to do with burgers
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Overall a moderately encouraging week in B.C. for reducing transmission, with the rolling average down 5% and active cases essentially stable, despite ongoing weird data corrections in different regions
The B.C. government provided the figures for one day of the number people still in hospital originally for #COVID19, but who no longer count to the daily total.
So we can't really chart that, but here's what it looks like in comparison for one day.
Here's a tiny story about everybody's favourite show: British Columbia, pandemic data, and government transparency.
Today's episode: the case of the 99% vaccination rate!
It took some time, but the government now breaks down % of people vaccinated in a pretty detailed way: not just by local health area, but by age and by health region.
And that publicly available data says that 99% of people 18-29 in Coastal Health have gotten a vaccine dose.
99% of people 18-29 in Vancouver Coastal Health vaccinated would be an amazing story, and an unbelievable success for public health officials in convincing a demographic that across the world has been a bit slower to get a shot.
The B.C. government has put out a long statement on how they count hospitalizations for #COVID19.
It says there are 152 additional people in hospital, above the 330 in the official count.
When patients are no longer infectious, they're removed from the count.
The government statement says "these discontinued isolation cases are reported independently from B.C.'s COVID numbers. They are included in reports on overall hospital capacity and critical-care capacity."
Which is not particularly true, since we don't get a raw number.
It's important to remember that the way the government reports hospitalizations has not changed, and we talked about this a lot several months ago.
But we're at the height of the 4th wave, health care workers are more burned out that ever, so that uncounted number matters more.
867 new cases of #COVID19 in B.C., the highest number since April 23, as the 4th wave continues to do its thing.
Hospitalizations up to 159, ICU up to 84, and three new deaths.
Today's chart.
(i admit to being somewhat mystified by people going "oh wow the high cases!" when this is the same rate of growth we've been seeing for weeks and the effects of new restrictions won't be seen yet, but i am repeating myself here)
8,529 people in B.C. received a first vaccine dose yesterday, bringing it to 25,656 first doses since the vaccine card was announced.
That's about 3.5% of all people 12+ who hadn't gotten a vaccine, doing so in the last three days.