Here's your AB COVID # analysis for Tues Feb 8th. 1)
CAses/d (I know y'all know this fact, but for those who don't (@jkenney) this is a pretty useless metric now that testing is restricted) 1773. Positivity 36.43% (last Mon 40.53%). 2/
Hospitalization: Inpt: Last Tues +22 to 1568 (new pandemic record) (revised from 1566 yest 1554 Fri 1542 Thurs and 1492 Wed) Wed -35 to 1533 (revised from 1530 yest 1515 Fri and 1472 Thurs) Thurs -21 to 1512(revised from 1507 yest and 1466 Fri). 3/
Fri -14 to 1498 (revised from 1492 yest), Sat -48 to 1450 (revised from 1437 yest), Sun +26 to 1476 (Revised from 1424 yest). yest +18 to 1494 (subj to revision) ICU: Sun +2 to 119 (revised from 118 yest) Yest +10 to 128 (new #weararespiratorwave record) (subj to revision). 5/
Paeds admits 11, incl one baby in the ICU. Deaths 13 (we've been bouncing around 13-15 deaths/day for quite a while). 6/
Finishing up with some rural wastewater monitoring graphs. It may be dropping in urban areas, but rural areas are another thing altogether. Source: covid-tracker.chi-csm.ca fin/
thanks to @ArynToombs and AB Health for the graphics.
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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/dashboar…
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/leadi…
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/def…
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/