Thread by @jvipondmd

Here's your AB COVID # analysis for Mon Dec 20th, covering Fri/Sat/Sun. TLDR: Omicron is going to wreck your holidays. 1/

Cases/d: Fri 630, a 101.2%% incr from last Fri's 313. Sat 724, 177.4% up from 261. Sun 580, up 190% from 200. 7d ave now 527, up 70.8% from last week's 305 (fri 23.9%, Thurs 10.6%). Positivity 6.39% (last Fri 8.81%) 8.34% (4.16%) 8.81% (3.72%). 2/

Hospitalizations: inpts Tues -6 to 297 (revised from 296 Thurs and 291 Wed) Wed -7 to 290 (revised from 286 Fri and 282 Thurs) Yest -10 to 280 (revised from 276 yest) (all weekend numbers subj to revision) Fri -7 to 273, Sat -20 to 253, Sun +2 to 255. 3/

ICU Fri -3 to 65. Sat +4 to 69. Sun unchanged at 69. Worth noting that our ICU #s have been stable at around 70 since the 3rd of Dec. 17 days. 4/

Paeds admits: none (yay!) Deaths 6. Another 40-49 year old. 5/

Demographics: wow, what dynamic changes in the age groups. Has anyone asked AH how many fan cases came from the Saddledome Flames game? I'd be so curious. The #weararespiratorwave (aka 5th wave aka omicron wave) is also heavily urban, unlike the last two. 6/

And of course Omicron has come to dominate. >50% of variant cases on Friday. We are in trouble. 7/

I firmly believe if our gov't had been able to forsee today's #s, there wouldn't have been a relaxation of gathering measures 6 days ago (really, it was only 6 days ago). another case of #jurisdictionalexceptionism, aka what is happening elsewhere can't happen here (it did). 8/

As we enter the #weararespiratorwave, Our hospitalizations are at 253... for the nadir of the 2nd/3rd wave we bottomed out at 202. for 3rd/4th wave, 58. ICU even worse, at 69 yest, compared to 2nd/3rd nadir of 37, 3rd/4th nadir of 17. 9/

Our health system is not ready for this. We will be tested, and unless something drastic occurs, we will fail. It is time to protect yourselves. WEar a respirator. ask your loved ones to wear a respirator. Ask your governments to provide respirators free to all... 10/

HCWs and public, as not everyone can afford these more expensive masks. Reuse them so we don't fill the landfills with disposable masks. (until 40 hours, visibly soiled, or smells). 11/

And please, Public Health officials, Infectious Disease docs, and politicians, state #COVIDisAirborne so we can all understand how to protect ourselves. fin/

Thanks to AB Health and @ByMatthewBlack for the graphics.