Here's your AB COVID # analysis for Wed Jan 12th. 1/
Cases/d yest 6975 a 47.6% incr from last Tues's 4726. 7d ave 5848 a 55.7% incr wk over wk from 3757. Positivity 38.33% up from last wks 37.1%. 2/
Hospitalizations: inpts. Last Tues +49 to 470(revised from 466 yest 464 Mon 429 Fri 428 Thurs and 398 Wed) Wed +18 to 488 (revised from 482 yest 475 Mon 448 Fri 434 Thurs) Thurs +21 to 519 (revised from 510 yest 504 Mon 440 Fri) Fri +60 to 579 (revised from 570 yest 558 Mon) . 3/
Sat +14 to 593 (revised from 585 yest and 555 Mon). Sun +40 to 633 (revised from yest 617 and Mon 563). Yest +36 to 669 (revised from 628 yest) Yest -3 to 666 (subject to revision). 7d rise to Mon of 55.7% (yest 53.4% Mon 53%). 4/
ICU: Sat +3 to 75 (revised from 76 yest and 74 Mon). Sun -1 to 74 (revised from 75 yest). Mon +5 to 79 (revised from 80 yest). one wk rise to yest of 39% (yest 48.1% Mon 37%) 5/
Paeds admits 13 including 1 aged 5-9 to ICU. Total deaths all ages 15. 6/
Characteristics: no change to former trends. Watch for rising cases 5-11 and 12-19 in by Friday due to schools (although likely hidden by lack of PCR testing availability). 7/
Today's educational @PopAlberta is on how to keep your family safe if a positive case happens to enter your lives. Hope this doesn't happen, but if it does, you're prepared. fin/
Recently returned from representing the @CanCovSoc with @RougeMatisse and Marie-Michelle Bellon at the 2nd Annual Long COVID Symposium in Edmonton, hosted by @LongCOVIDWebCA.
Thrilled to see so many caring docs and researchers in masks, many in respirator masks. 1/5
One thing I learned is that there is a load of resources out there for people (patients, docs, others) to learn about long COVID (aka Post-Covid Condition). I thought I'd share four.
The first, of course, is @LongCOVIDWebCA.
Time for a thread. Now that we are "post-pandemic" what is the impact of this "endemic" disease on people and society, from a strictly mortality perspective?
(quotation marks intentional)
Let's take a look at the Alberta data. 1/
Our respiratory "season" closes this wk. Currently deaths are at 715, up 10 from prev wk. With an av of about 10/wk recently, and a lag in reporting, I suspect we'll end up at at least 730 for the 12 month period.
Is that a lot? should we care?
source: 2/ alberta.ca/stats/dashboarβ¦
We have good data from prev year's causes of mortaliy, found in this spreadsheet:
Recall that in Canada (and AB) for 2022 COVID was the 3rd leading cause of death at 1547. (2021 2nd at 1950) 3/ open.alberta.ca/opendata/leadiβ¦
I think we need to talk about the Infection Prevention and Control- Canada organization (IPAC-Canada). @IPACCanada, who has their annual conference starting Sunday. 1/
I was lucky enough to present at last year's convention at the invite of @BarryHunt008, on environmental impact of masking policies, with a focus on airborne protection.
You can see my presentation here: 3/
It's out! The @WHO's new wordsmithing report on airborne transmission. I'm going to do a little dissection on the good and the bad, who wins and who loses. 1/ cdn.who.int/media/docs/defβ¦
the TLDR is: "through the air" is the old "droplet" and "airborne" transmission modalities combined. "inhalation" is the new "airborne". "direct deposition" is the new "droplet" 2/
The great: finally an acknowledgment that short-range airborne transmission is an integral component of all (not just COVID) airborne transmission. This is huge. It means that workers esp. HCWs need respirator masks (FFP2/3, N95) when interacting with concerning patients. 3/
Apparently many in the Canadian ID community on this platform are weighing in that paxlovid should no longer be recommended to high-risk (elderly, immunocompromised) outpatients with confirmed covid.
I think we should take a look at the evidence they've presented.
(a thread) 1/
So far there has been no evidence presented, none, except for the blogpost posted in the first tweet.
No peer reviewed science. At all.
And a reminder that there are still >500 inpts in Alberta with covid, and 10-20 patients dying each week (all likely high risk patients).
2/
Another reminder is I reviewed the paxlovid evidence in a thread a few weeks ago, in response to a paxlovid-minimizing news story by @LaurenPelley of @CBCNews.
You can check out the thread here: 3/