After first week of school 🤦♂️
Already cancelled half day of clinic to care for child and set up home to prevent transmission to vulnerable household members (HEPA, N95, Ventilation). #Covid19BC
User submitted Q's:
"How can PHO justify removing mandatory masking in crowded enclosed places? Mask wearing reduces virus transmission. It is not possible to avoid the virus being spewed out by unmasked, infected people ... not enough protection for average vulnerable person."
Another Q for UBC webinar tonight:
"Could someone please show us a redrawn epi curve with your estimates of what 1st, 5th & 6th wave case counts more likely looked like given our minimal use of PCR testing on the general population of symptomatic people during those periods?"
🧵 BC PH modelling report on Jan 14 said "Virus concentration in wastewater peaked in first week of January and correlates with COVID-19 case counts across FHA and VCH".
"infections are likely to have reached their peak" news.gov.bc.ca/files/14.01.22… (1/n)
Also "BC's case trajectory so far is consistent with that observed in other jurisdictions.." (2/n)
But with much reduced PCR testing starting Dec 23 (Vancouver) & Dec 30 (Fraser Health), and very high % positivity (40%+), the reported case counts do Not reflect the current situation. (Rapid tests are not reported)
Excess rainwater in sewer system "5 to 10 times the sewage volume"
One can guess what that's gonna do to Covid-19 virus concentration in wastewater treatment stations. burnabynow.com/local-news/tax…
**Unless BC Wastewater Covid-19 concentration measurements are Normalized (like Ottawa, Sask).
But 'Normalization' was not mentioned in BC's wastewater data or by BCCDC situation report. 613covid.ca/wastewater/
POLL: For BC K-12 parents, school staff and students, about what percentage of students in class did NOT come to school this week (Jan 10-14)? #BCEd#Covid19BC#BCpoli