Thread by @jvipondmd

Here's your AB COVID # analysis for Wed Jan 5th. 1/

Yest cases/d 4768, a 69% incr from last Tues's 2823. Case positivity 36.92% compared to yest 36.2% and last Tues 30.08%. Both cases/d and positivity acheive new records for the pandemic. 2/

Hospitalizations: Inpts: Fri -1 to 354 (revised from 353 yest), Sat +5 to 359 (revised to 357), Sun +20 to 379 (revised from 375 yest), Mon +16 to 391 (revised from 375 yest). Yest +7 to 398 (subj to revision). 7days up 85 or 27.1% (yest 31.6%). 3/

ICU +10 or 16.1% (in 1 day!) to 72. Paeds admits 13 including 3 new ICU (aka 27.2% of today's ICU admits are kids). Deaths 11. 4/

Demographics: noticed tonight that AB Health is not updating the age range incidence of COVID. Hopefully that will be updated shortly. REgionally, urban centres continue to predominate. 5/

Variants: Omicron, unsurprisingly, now dominating. Delta evaporating. 6/

Vaccinations: I don't normally report vaxx, but with the opening of schools, worth recognizing for the 5-11 age range, only 37.3% have their 1st vaxx. Only 4%!!!! have their 2nd vaxx (remembering that Omicron requires 3 vaxxs to prevent infection). 7/

Pretty sad about the lack of mitigations for transmission being offered to students as they return to schools on Monday. You should watch our excellent @PopAlberta briefing on this topic from this afternoon. fin/

Thanks to @ArynToombs @ByMatthewBlack and AB Health for the graphics.