Thread by @TRyanGregory

Hello Canada! 🇨🇦

A few things you might not know about the pandemic...
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🇨🇦 Did you know that 2022 was the deadliest year of the pandemic in Canada?

thestar.com/news/analysis/…

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🇨🇦 Did you know that Canada recently passed 50,000 COVID deaths?

globalnews.ca/news/9414775/c…

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🇨🇦 Did you know that more Canadians have died of COVID than died in World War II?

(🇺🇸 Also, did you know that more of our American neighbours have died of COVID than dies in combat in every war they've fought since 1775?)

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🇨🇦 Did you know that the *lowest* number of COVID patients in hospital has been increasing through 5 waves of Omicron and that the troughs have all been higher than the *peak* of the Delta wave?

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🇨🇦 Did you know that summer 2022 had twice as many deaths as summer 2021?

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🇨🇦 Did you know that the main issue with Omicron variants is no longer "tsunamis" caused by individual variants, but rising sea level with high and low tide? This imposes sustained pressure on the healthcare system.

(Image with area under the curve courtesy of @allard)

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🇨🇦 Did you know that 15% of Canadians infected with COVID (1.4 million people) report long-term symptoms?

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quoti…

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🇨🇦 Did you know that there are now more than 700 Omicron subvariants, and that many of them can escape prior immunity and are resistant to available treatments?

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🇨🇦 Did you know that mitigation measures like high-quality (N95) masks worn properly, ventilation, air filtration, and avoiding high risk contact are all variant-proof?

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🇨🇦 Did you know that the pandemic is not over?

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Quick note about the not-low lows of hospitalizations since Omicron. Same pattern happening in various places (New York, UK, France, Denmark, etc.).

Here's hospital *admissions for COVID* in England:

Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, Israel...

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