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B.C. COVID-19 pandemic update:

 

As of Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, 90.1% (4,176,649) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 85.6% (3,968,494) have received their second dose.

 

In addition, 90.5% (3,915,733) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose and 86.2% (3,728,579) have received their second dose.

 

B.C. is reporting 596 new cases of COVID-19, including two epi-linked cases, for a total of 207,716 cases in the province.

 

There are currently 4,451 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, and 200,749 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 438 individuals are in hospital and 130 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

 

The new/active cases include:

  • 222 new cases in Fraser Health
    • Total active cases: 1,927
  • 46 new cases in Vancouver Coastal Health
    • Total active cases: 565
  • 115 new cases in Interior Health
    • Total active cases: 666
  • 159 new cases in Northern Health
    • Total active cases: 616
  • 54 new cases in Island Health
    • Total active cases: 618
  • no new cases of people who reside outside of Canada
    • Total active cases: 59

In the past 24 hours, eight new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,200.

 

The new deaths include:

  • Fraser Health: three
  • Vancouver Coastal Health: two
  • Northern Health: three

There have been two new health-care facility outbreaks at Abbotsford Regional Hospital (Fraser Health) and Peace Villa (Northern Health). The outbreaks at Manoah Manor, Valleyhaven Retirement Community, Westminster House, Willingdon Care Centre (Fraser Health) and Wrinch Memorial Hospital (Northern Health) have been declared over, for a total of 37 active outbreaks, including:

long-term care:

  • Cherington Place, West Shore Laylum, Queens Park Care Centre, Rosemary Heights Seniors Village, Tabor Home, Cascade Gardens (Fraser Health);
  • Amica Lions Gate, Amica Edgemont (Vancouver Coastal Health);
  • Cottonwoods Care Centre, Overlander, Village by the Station, Haven Hill Retirement Centre, Deni House, Brocklehurst Gemstone Care Centre, Sun Pointe Village (Interior Health);
  • Peace Villa (Northern Health); and
  • Chartwell Malaspina Care Residence (Island Health).

acute care:

  • Mission Memorial Hospital, Chilliwack General Hospital, Queen’s Park Care Centre, Abbotsford Regional Hospital (Fraser Health);
  • Royal Inland Hospital (Interior Health);
  • University Hospital of Northern BC, GR Baker Memorial Hospital, Bulkley Valley District Hospital (Northern Health); and
  • Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (Island Health)

assisted or independent living:

  • Menno Terrace West, The Emerald at Elim Village, Swedish Assisted Living Residence, Harrison Pointe, Norman Manor, Pacific Carlton Seniors Community, Rideau Retirement Residence, Tabor Manor, The Cedars, Hallmark on the Lake and Hallmark on the Park (Fraser Health).

From Oct. 27 to Nov. 2, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 64.5% of cases and from Oct. 20 to Nov. 2 they accounted for 71.8% of hospitalizations.

 

Past week cases (Oct. 27 to Nov. 2) – Total 3,532

  • Not vaccinated: 2,096 (59.3%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 182 (5.2%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 1,254 (35.5%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Oct. 20 to Nov. 2) – Total 447

  • Not vaccinated: 293 (65.5%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 28 (6.3%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 126 (28.2%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Oct. 27 to Nov. 2)    

  • Not vaccinated: 269.4
  • Partially vaccinated: 62.7
  • Fully vaccinated: 29.0

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Oct. 20 to Nov. 2)

  • Not vaccinated: 56.4
  • Partially vaccinated: 13.9
  • Fully vaccinated: 2.8

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 8,295,846 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

 

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021HLTH0193-002107

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Europe- back into covid hell?

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/europe-could-see-500-000-new-covid-deaths-by-february-who-says/ar-AAQjQ9b?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

 

"“Europe is back at the epicentre of the pandemic, where we were one year ago,” the World Health Organization’s head of Europe said Thursday.

 

The number of new COVID-19 cases per day has been rising for nearly six consecutive weeks, and the number of new deaths per day has been climbing for just over seven consecutive weeks, with about 250,000 cases and 3,600 deaths per day, according to official country data compiled by the AFP newswire.

The WHO’s European region spans 53 countries and territories and includes several nations in Central Asia, and has already seen 78 million cases. Over the past four weeks, new case numbers have grown by more than 55 per cent, prompting WHO Europe director Hans Kluge to allow that the “current pace of transmission … is of grave concern .”

Kluge cited one “reliable projection” for the prediction that the current trajectory would mean “another half a million COVID-19 deaths” by Feb. 1, 2022.

Although one billion doses have been administered in Europe and central Asia, Kluge blamed insufficient vaccination coverage and the relaxation of public health and social measures for the latest increases.

“If we achieved 95 per cent universal mask use in Europe and central Asia,” he noted, “we could save up to 188,000 lives of the half million we may lose before February 2022.

“Preventive measures, when applied correctly and consistently,” he said, “allow us to go on with our lives, not the opposite. Preventive measures do not deprive people of their freedom, they ensure it.”

While scientists expect that the first countries to emerge from the pandemic will have had some combination of high rates of vaccination and natural immunity among people who were infected with the coronavirus, such as the United States, the U.K., Portugal and India, that will not occur until some time near the end of 2022. The WHO aims to have 70 per cent of the world’s population vaccinated by then.

Even as new variants find their way around immunity, some researchers expect a high-enough number of vaccinations to significantly cut transmission by the end of next year. Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist leading the WHO’s coronavirus response, says in about a year we should “get control over this virus … where we can significantly reduce severe disease and death.”

In the meantime, she worries about countries lifting COVID precautions prematurely. “It’s amazing to me to be seeing, you know, people out on the streets, as if everything is over.”

The delta variant is currently dominating the virus’s spread, leading the number of new cases to climb to “alarming” record levels across Europe. Last week, the WHO statement noted, Europe and Central Asia saw nearly 1.8 million new cases and 24,000 new deaths, a six per cent and 12 per cent increase, respectively, from the previous week. But thanks to the availability of vaccines, new deaths are at approximately half the levels they were at the peak last year.

“In the situation Europe and central Asia finds itself today,” Kluge said, “I am encouraged to see that over the past two weeks, 23 countries have responsibly strengthened social measures. But I am also concerned that seven have eased up.

“We must change our tactics,” he said, “from reacting to surges of COVID-19, to preventing them from happening in the first place.”

Hospital admission rates more than doubled in a week, WHO/Europe’s latest data show, as more people develop severe disease and more people die. Currently, 75 per cent of fatal cases are in people aged 65 years and older.

Most people hospitalized and dying from COVID-19 today are not fully vaccinated. On average, only 47 per cent of the area’s population has had their full dosage, the WHO’s Thursday statement said. While eight countries have reached more than 70 per cent coverage, two countries are still at less than 10 per cent.

Over the past seven days, Russia has led the rise with 8,162 deaths, Ukraine with 3,819 and Romania with 3,100 deaths, according to the AFP data.

“I am asking every health authority to carefully reconsider easing or lifting of measures at this very moment,” Kluge said.

— With additional reporting by Reuters

 
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5 minutes ago, gurn said:

250,000 cases and 3,600 deaths per day, according to official country data compiled by the AFP newswire.

The WHO’s European region spans 53 countries and territories and includes several nations in Central Asia, and has already seen 78 million cases.

 

5 minutes ago, gurn said:

“If we achieved 95 per cent universal mask use in Europe and central Asia,” he noted, “we could save up to 188,000 lives of the half million we may lose before February 2022.

 

6 minutes ago, gurn said:

Preventive measures, when applied correctly and consistently,” he said, “allow us to go on with our lives, not the opposite. Preventive measures do not deprive people of their freedom, they ensure it.”

 

6 minutes ago, gurn said:

The delta variant is currently dominating the virus’s spread, leading the number of new cases to climb to “alarming” record levels across Europe. Last week, the WHO statement noted, Europe and Central Asia saw nearly 1.8 million new cases and 24,000 new deaths, a six per cent and 12 per cent increase, respectively, from the previous week. But thanks to the availability of vaccines, new deaths are at approximately half the levels they were at the peak last year.

 

7 minutes ago, gurn said:

Currently, 75 per cent of fatal cases are in people aged 65 years and older.

 

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This doesn't seem 'unprecedented' to me.

 

About 10 years ago a friend of mine broke a guys jaw after the guy purposely spat on him.

The dude was a rich fella and dragged into court. My friend got off with no charges as the judge ruled the action of spitting as assault. 

Deliberately coughing at someone is a criminal assault, Alberta judge rules in 'unprecedented decision'

https://nationalpost.com/health/deliberately-coughing-at-someone-is-a-criminal-assault-alberta-judge-rules-in-unprecedented-decision

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31 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:

This doesn't seem 'unprecedented' to me.

 

About 10 years ago a friend of mine broke a guys jaw after the guy purposely spat on him.

The dude was a rich fella and dragged into court. My friend got off with no charges as the judge ruled the action of spitting as assault. 

Deliberately coughing at someone is a criminal assault, Alberta judge rules in 'unprecedented decision'

https://nationalpost.com/health/deliberately-coughing-at-someone-is-a-criminal-assault-alberta-judge-rules-in-unprecedented-decision

If you gave someone Covid as a result, would a manslaughter conviction be reasonable?

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38 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:

This doesn't seem 'unprecedented' to me.

 

About 10 years ago a friend of mine broke a guys jaw after the guy purposely spat on him.

The dude was a rich fella and dragged into court. My friend got off with no charges as the judge ruled the action of spitting as assault. 

Deliberately coughing at someone is a criminal assault, Alberta judge rules in 'unprecedented decision'

https://nationalpost.com/health/deliberately-coughing-at-someone-is-a-criminal-assault-alberta-judge-rules-in-unprecedented-decision

Don't blame him, if someone spat on me I am clocking them.

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Nine lung transplants performed in B.C. as a result of COVID infections

Of the nine people who have received the life-altering surgery since April, eight were healthy before contracting the virus.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/vancouversun.com/news/nine-lung-transplants-performed-in-b-c-as-a-result-of-covid-infections/wcm/ff9c3210-1ab1-4507-adfa-0f87eda1fa3f/amp/

 

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5 hours ago, bishopshodan said:

This doesn't seem 'unprecedented' to me.

 

About 10 years ago a friend of mine broke a guys jaw after the guy purposely spat on him.

The dude was a rich fella and dragged into court. My friend got off with no charges as the judge ruled the action of spitting as assault. 

Deliberately coughing at someone is a criminal assault, Alberta judge rules in 'unprecedented decision'

https://nationalpost.com/health/deliberately-coughing-at-someone-is-a-criminal-assault-alberta-judge-rules-in-unprecedented-decision

From Roberto Alomar's playbook 

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Europe- back into covid hell?

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/europe-could-see-500-000-new-covid-deaths-by-february-who-says/ar-AAQjQ9b?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

 

"“Europe is back at the epicentre of the pandemic, where we were one year ago,” the World Health Organization’s head of Europe said Thursday.

 

The number of new COVID-19 cases per day has been rising for nearly six consecutive weeks, and the number of new deaths per day has been climbing for just over seven consecutive weeks, with about 250,000 cases and 3,600 deaths per day, according to official country data compiled by the AFP newswire.

The WHO’s European region spans 53 countries and territories and includes several nations in Central Asia, and has already seen 78 million cases. Over the past four weeks, new case numbers have grown by more than 55 per cent, prompting WHO Europe director Hans Kluge to allow that the “current pace of transmission … is of grave concern .”

Kluge cited one “reliable projection” for the prediction that the current trajectory would mean “another half a million COVID-19 deaths” by Feb. 1, 2022.

Although one billion doses have been administered in Europe and central Asia, Kluge blamed insufficient vaccination coverage and the relaxation of public health and social measures for the latest increases.

“If we achieved 95 per cent universal mask use in Europe and central Asia,” he noted, “we could save up to 188,000 lives of the half million we may lose before February 2022.

“Preventive measures, when applied correctly and consistently,” he said, “allow us to go on with our lives, not the opposite. Preventive measures do not deprive people of their freedom, they ensure it.”

While scientists expect that the first countries to emerge from the pandemic will have had some combination of high rates of vaccination and natural immunity among people who were infected with the coronavirus, such as the United States, the U.K., Portugal and India, that will not occur until some time near the end of 2022. The WHO aims to have 70 per cent of the world’s population vaccinated by then.

Even as new variants find their way around immunity, some researchers expect a high-enough number of vaccinations to significantly cut transmission by the end of next year. Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist leading the WHO’s coronavirus response, says in about a year we should “get control over this virus … where we can significantly reduce severe disease and death.”

In the meantime, she worries about countries lifting COVID precautions prematurely. “It’s amazing to me to be seeing, you know, people out on the streets, as if everything is over.”

The delta variant is currently dominating the virus’s spread, leading the number of new cases to climb to “alarming” record levels across Europe. Last week, the WHO statement noted, Europe and Central Asia saw nearly 1.8 million new cases and 24,000 new deaths, a six per cent and 12 per cent increase, respectively, from the previous week. But thanks to the availability of vaccines, new deaths are at approximately half the levels they were at the peak last year.

“In the situation Europe and central Asia finds itself today,” Kluge said, “I am encouraged to see that over the past two weeks, 23 countries have responsibly strengthened social measures. But I am also concerned that seven have eased up.

“We must change our tactics,” he said, “from reacting to surges of COVID-19, to preventing them from happening in the first place.”

Hospital admission rates more than doubled in a week, WHO/Europe’s latest data show, as more people develop severe disease and more people die. Currently, 75 per cent of fatal cases are in people aged 65 years and older.

Most people hospitalized and dying from COVID-19 today are not fully vaccinated. On average, only 47 per cent of the area’s population has had their full dosage, the WHO’s Thursday statement said. While eight countries have reached more than 70 per cent coverage, two countries are still at less than 10 per cent.

Over the past seven days, Russia has led the rise with 8,162 deaths, Ukraine with 3,819 and Romania with 3,100 deaths, according to the AFP data.

“I am asking every health authority to carefully reconsider easing or lifting of measures at this very moment,” Kluge said.

— With additional reporting by Reuters

 

Slovenia is very anti-vax and even made the news a few weeks back with large anti-vax protests.

 

Now,

4400 daily cases or over 2% of the population. Population of Slovenia is 2 million.

159 in ICU and that number continues to rise despite 19 dying the other day. Health ministry is saying that the health system is at capacity and they are talking to other surrounding nations about taking those in ICU as the system is at full capacity. 

Health ministry wants a full lockdown.

Government says that a full lockdown is not possible and that we just need to get through it.

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Covid: Pfizer says antiviral pill 89% effective in high risk cases

An experimental pill to treat Covid developed by the US company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by 89% in vulnerable adults, clinical trial results suggest.

 

The drug - Paxlovid - is intended for use soon after symptoms develop in people at high risk of severe disease.

 

It comes a day after the UK medicines regulator approved a similar treatment from Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD).

 

Pfizer says it stopped trials early as the initial results were so positive.

 

The UK has already ordered 250,000 courses of the new Pfizer treatment along with another 480,000 courses of MSD's molnupiravir pill.

 

The Pfizer drug, known as a protease inhibitor, is designed to block an enzyme the virus needs in order to multiply. When taken alongside a low dose of another antiviral pill called ritonavir, it stays in the body for longer.

 

Three pills are taken twice a day for five days.

 

The combination treatment works slightly differently to the Merck pill which introduces errors into the genetic code of the virus.

 

Pfizer said it plans to submit interim trial results for its pill to the US medicines regulator, the FDA, as part of the emergency use application it started last month.

 

The company's chairman and chief executive officer Albert Bourla said the pill had "the potential to save patients' lives, reduce the severity of Covid-19 infections, and eliminate up to nine out of 10 hospitalisations".

Trial results

Vaccines against Covid-19 are seen as the best way of controlling the pandemic but there is also demand for treatments that can be taken at home, particularly for vulnerable people who become infected.

 

Interim data from trials of the treatment in 1,219 high-risk patients who had recently been infected with Covid found that 0.8% of those given Paxlovid were hospitalised compared with 7% of patients who were given a placebo or dummy pill.

 

They were treated within three days of Covid symptoms starting.

 

Seven patients given the placebo died compared to none in the group given the pill.

 

When treated within five days of symptoms appearing, 1% given Paxlovid ended up in hospital and none died. This compared to 6.7% of the placebo group being hospitalised and 10 of them dying.

 

Patients in the trial were elderly or had an underlying health condition which put them at higher risk of serious illness from Covid. They all had mild to moderate symptoms of coronavirus.

 

Pfizer is also studying the treatment's impact on people at low risk of Covid illness and on those who have already been exposed to the virus by someone in their household.

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