BC Update:
+2,275 new cases
+6 deaths
-646 in hospital (+112)*
-95 in ICU (-7)
-13,688 tests administered (16.6% positive)
-35,943 active cases (-106)
-64,485 vaccines administered, with a total of 1,412,493 boosters
-83.3% of eligible people (5+) have 2 doses
-30.5% of eligible people (12+) have 3 doses
-even though the new cases numbers are total bullshit, provided they don't ~open things up on Tuesday (...eeeh....), I think we've seen the peak of new cases. Mostly just going by positive percentage, which has dropped from around 25% at the peak, to 16/17%. So... on that metric, we're not shooting up rapidly anymore. Onto waiting for the hospital peak... speaking of...
*Re hospitalizations:
"The new method for counting COVID-19 in hospitals amounts to a "census" of all positive cases, regardless of their reason for admission, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry explained at a Friday morning briefing, acknowledging it was an "overestimate."
"It includes people related, because of COVID. It includes people who are incidentally found to have COVID-19, and it includes people who were part of an outbreak or cluster in a hospital, so acquired it while they were in the hospital for something else," she said.
"Right now, about 45 per cent of the people in the hospital at this point are people who are incidentally found to have COVID. It does have an impact on things like infection control practices in the hospital. But it does also give us a measure of where we are in terms of impact.""
She also acknowledges that "there were currently about 45 or 50 people being admitted for COVID daily."
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