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Jan 18, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
#COVID19 hospitalizations in B.C. jumped up 27% over the weekend to 819, and there were 22 new deaths, most over a weekend since October.

Effects of the Omicron surge are really being seen in two of our main metrics, but ICU cases only up 4 to 99.

Today's chart.
Given the sharp uptick we've seen in deaths in the last week, but not a corresponding rise in ICU cases, one might think a lot of these are in long-term care settings.

But we only get that information on a backdated basis, so hard to be conclusive.
An average of 44,061 people in B.C. received a booster shot over the weekend, a 22% increase over the prior week.
We've now had six days in a row with just over 100 new hospitalizations.

(have to average out the numbers over the weekend)

Good news is that number is no longer rising, the bad news is that's not a great number!
Repeat after me: hard to know exactly where B.C. is at in this wave given data limitations. No new wastewater numbers for six days now.

But the rolling positive rate has gone from 24.1 to 21.6%, and the number of new daily hospitalizations has temporarily plateaued.
Apologies for the charts being late today! Things got delayed to make sense of the province's rollout of the updated Omicron public health orders.

We'll find out about those at 1:30 tomorrow.

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"Justin, once the election is over, what will you be doing?"

me: here is a pyramid of beer from the seven key municipalities we will be focusing on tonight
7. KELOWNA

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it's a beautiful saturday in august

the pne has begun

it's a little cooler than the last few days

really the ideal time to enjoy the last good stretch of summer

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Vancouver's centre-right Non-Partisan Association has been one of the city's top two parties in 58 of its last 59 elections.

In 2018 they won the most council seats & came within 1000 votes of being elected mayor.

And then what happened?
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Aug 5, 2022
who is ready for some charts
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Outside of Langley, numbers are back to where they were in early June.
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Today in "governments being accountable for the billion dollar organizations they oversee", a quick recap of hoping to speak to someone about the departure of BC Housing's CEO
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For a very basic metric of this, here's a chart. Image
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Last weekend I went to the weirdest ghost town in Canada, a time machine to 1981, hundreds of kilometres from any major city.

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