“Focusing on Covid morbidity/mortality is bad b/c…to protect older Cdns has come at high cost to our youth” Dr. Krajden
In BC, our public health leaders have protected neither seniors nor youth.
BC Public Health leaders have not protected our seniors. They have manipulated the definition of outbreaks in LTC, and left it at the discretion of the Medical Health Officer of the regional health authority, or their official designate, to even declare an outbreak.
Guess what happened? Some Health Authorities have had little to no outbreaks declared since week 1 of 2022. Spot the missing colors after week 1.
Strange how that works, MORE contagious variants and LESS outbreaks, with ongoing abysmal LTC Infection Control protocols based on droplet & contact spread, no #N95, no #CleanAir, Covid + with Covid - roomate, etc.
As for 60-69 yo seniors, why were they not offered a 4th vaccine dose much earlier, as was done in other provinces? 60-69 yo have 69% of the 70-79 yo's admission numbers for 2022 and just about same number of ICU admissions for 2022. BC Sit. Report wk 52-38 and @CDCofBC data
As for protecting youths, it starts with making schools and early childcare education (ECE) centres #COVID safe.
Interestingly this number of C-19 cases in schools was not captured in B.C. Centre for Disease Control school situation report at the time. How strange?
On par with HA not advising parents and educators of #Covid exposures at schools. Prompting BC School Covid Tracker moms to step in.
And then there's the "pièce de resistance" of just how well youth were being protected by BC public health leaders. Same leaders who repeatedly stated that schools were safe at every press conference, all the while they were counting how many children were getting infected.
No, children did not get infected from their parents. They infected them. That is why the seroconversion rate (attack rate) of children was higher during the Sept/Oct 2021 to March 2022. "Children were the most infected and least vaccinated" the study author stated.
How many children, parents or educators will have developed #LongCovid as a result of unsafe schools? We won't know as our PH Leaders don't seem to believe #LongCovid even exists. If they did, how could they have let this happen?
Sadly it is not just our seniors and youth that our BC public health leaders #bcpoli#bced and @CDCofBC are failing to protect. Data from WorkSafeBC.
"Note that occupation information is lagged, due to the recent increase in COVID-19 claims and operational capacity." Begs the question what are BC Public Health leaders doing to protect these workers?
Looking back at hospital admissions with Viral Resp. Infections to understand: "sick all the time"
Weekly admissions to 78 🇨🇦hospitals in 10 provinces & 1 territory participating in VRI Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program
All Ages up to 29-03-2025 health-infobase.canada.ca/cnisp/viral-re…
Looking at the same data for Adults only.
Spring-Summer-Fall #Covid
Influenza season was late with admissions peaking higher than last year.
Same data for pediatrics. Mind the change in scale on y axis. Shows you how much RSV drives admissions in children.
Remember @BCCDC refused to fund #RSV vax for high risk seniors.
@BCCDC refused to broadly roll out new long acting monoclonal Ab for at risk neonates & children
Attended #LongCovidAwarenessDay2025 at Vancouver Art Gallery.
Did not see Dr. Bonnie Henry nor other public health leaders
Did not see anyone from @CDCofBC
Did not see BC premier @Dave_Eby
Did not see BC Health Minister @Josie_Osborne nor any other political parties.
#bcpoli
Luckily public came to show support for 3.5 million Canadians with Long Covid. (June 2023 Stats Can) 3.5 million is not the true number. No one is counting. That's intentional, part of the "what you don't know, don't see, can't hurt you."
Except #LongCovid can & it will hurt you
Dr. Henry @CDCofBC @Josie_Osborne @Dave_Eby and other #bcpoli this is what you would have seen, had you been there to support #LongCovidAwarenessDay2025
AB is lumped in "Prairies" with SK & MB.
Week 50 (2024-12-24) Prairies Percentage test positivity: 8% for SARS-CoV-2, 7.5% for Influenza, 10.6% for RSV
Canada: 10% for SARS-CoV-2, 4.4% for Influenza and 9.5% test positivity for RSV
See BC ⬇️ health-infobase.canada.ca/respiratory-vi…
Seems like the BC CDC is resuming weekly reporting.
Several changes have been introduced to their various dashboards. bccdc.ca/health-profess…
Virus in circulation in BC now in the adult population.
These do not represent number of cases.
Data up to Sept. 21, 2024 bccdc.shinyapps.io/respiratory_pa…
Anyone who says SARS-CoV-2 is becoming seasonal should be shown this graph from August 27, 2023 to September 21, 2024.
@CDCofBC paused the weekly Covid-19 Situation Report stopped on May 2, because the respiratory season was apparently over. Really? bccdc.shinyapps.io/respiratory_pa…
By refusing to accept that SARS-CoV-2 spreads through aerosols, all 🇨🇦public health officials put children & educators [and their families & communities] at risk of repeated COVID infections, and now measles in schools.
What's next, TB?
By doubling down on droplet spread of SARS2, 🇨🇦public health officials have prevented improvements to schools' indoor air quality, that would have also helped against measles.
Instead in 2024, in 🇨🇦, the public is told by public health to wash their hands. It's a disgrace!
People need to listen to the "real experts", people like Prof. Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer examining indoor & outdoor air quality & airborne pathogens that affect human health. Working at the intersection of atmospheric science, public health, & infectious disease.