As of Jan 21, an estimated 7547 Canadian children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
24% of those have been since protections were removed in individual provinces.
Individual provincial impacts are in this thread.
🧵 #canpoli#cdnpoli
As of Jan 28, an estimated 117 NB children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
57% of those have been since protections were removed. #NewBrunswick#nbpoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 107 NS children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
68% of those have been since protections were removed. #NovaScotia#nspoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 13 PEI children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
66% of those have been since protections were removed. #peipoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 44 NL children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
73% of those have been since protections were removed. #newfoundland#nlpoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 2668 QC children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
12% of those have been since protections were removed. #Quebec#quebecpoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 2377 ON children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
22% of those have been since protections were removed. #Ontario#onpoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 362 MB children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
29% of those have been since protections were removed. #Manitoba#mbpoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 273 SK children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
38% of those have been since protections were removed. #Saskatchewan#skpoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 818 AB children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
28% of those have been since protections were removed. #Alberta#abpoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 758 BC children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
42% of those have been since protections were removed. #BritishColumbia#bcpol
As of Jan 21, an estimated 5 YT children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19.
20% of those have been since protections were removed. #ytpoli
As of Jan 21, an estimated 3 NT children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19. #ntpoli
Not leaving NU out of this list.
They have reported 7 deaths as of Jan 21, which would proportionally equate to an estimated 1 NU child losing a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19. #nupoli
Public Health's revised Covid Watch report is less clear than any of their previous pandemic reporting.
Naturally, there are questions regarding the reason and timing of this change.
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In particular, age specific hospitalization data has been combined into new cohorts, with the weekly number hospitalized removed from the report.
Instead we now have a quantity of people who have been hospitalized since Aug 28; a number which is meaningless without prior values.
I can only think of one reason why reported metrics would be limited to the 16 week period of August 28 to present... the numbers are smaller.
This new date range seems arbitrary otherwise.
Today's GNB report sheds some light on last week's death revision.
I am inferring (emphasis here since we lack explanatory material) the 86 revised deaths were not in addition to previous "weekly" deaths.
The truth is we have not known *any* weekly death numbers since September.
Looking at the chart in the revised death count report, we see that 82 deaths have been "newly confirmed" in the period between Sep 3 and Dec 4 (news release said 86).
We assumed these 82 were in *addition* to the 64 deaths in weekly reports over those 12 weeks.
Looking at the same chart in today's report, we see that the 7 new deaths did not occur between December 11 - 17 (the reporting period), but between September 18 and December 4.
The "previously confirmed deaths" below match the revision chart from Friday.
GNB yesterday: "47 people have died from Covid-19 between September 3 and November 29; about 5 per week."
GNB today: "Actually, it's about three times that many... about 15 per week."
Retroactive truth silently released on a weekend without any notification is still deception.
Without any explanatory material, GNB released an updated Covid-19 death count. The report contains a title page and one nearly illegible chart. www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gn…
They've added a 7DA trend line for the error, which one supposes is meant to imply declining death? Baffling.
We now know two people die every day from Covid-19 in New Brunswick.
This is twice the mortality rate which lead to our strongest mandated protections one year ago.
We'll soon be in the position of having to accept or deny invitations to gather. Our replies and our concerns may be met in different ways. While the risks will vary, the science they are based on is consistent.
May this summary help.
🧵 #COVIDisAirborne
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We'll soon be in the position of having to accept or deny invitations to gather. Our replies and our concerns may be met in different ways. While the risks will vary, the science they are based on is consistent.
May this summary help.
🧵 #COVIDisVascular
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