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Yes, it is a trailing indicator, and as is well documented different countries are counting deaths very differently, but let's take a look at Spain which entered its second wave about two months before the UK, to see what the relative numbers of deaths to infections looks like with more data to look at.

The Spanish second wave plateaued through August and September at around the peak level of the Spanish first wave, and yet even today, allowing for 4-5 weeks of lag, the fatalities in Spain are barely 1/6th of those in the first wave, and I could make an argument (visual analysis of the charts) that it might be as little as 1/8th, depending on how you average out the daily bars on the deaths chart.

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Highest number of cases yet...Yesterday 1050 new cases and 14 deaths. Only 25K people tested yesterday vs 40K+ in recent weeks when the number of new cases were lower.

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Did you see this fancy new dashboard for Ontario?

https://t.co/KrsU3fhuUW?amp=1

It's got everything:

-Cases
-Hospitalizations
-Deaths
-Regions
-Gender
-Age
-Source of infection
-etc.

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335 cases today, outbreak declared at La Casa resort in West Kelowna. Seven people who attended a multi-household rental event between Oct. 23-26 have tested positive for the virus.

I wish they would let my wife work from home, it's a small office but people coming and going all day, and you never know what co-workers do on their time off.

https://www.kelownacapnews.com/news/...-west-kelowna/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...sday-1.5789808

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Went over 400 today. 425 to be exact.

Mostly in Fraser Health but Vancouver Coastal Health is rising too.

" 268 or about 63 per cent are located in the Fraser Health region, which has become the epicentre of the second wave of B.C.'s COVID-19 pandemic. Another 126 are in the Vancouver Coastal Health region."

18 new cases in Interior Health, 104 active cases.

Healthcare system still doing okay, and not needing to cancel elective procedures yet.

There is concern about healthcare workers becoming ill and have to isolate.

580 contact tracers been hired with a goal of 800.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...ov-5-1.5777641

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New dashboard here where you can compare COVID stats of BC to other parts of Canada and around the world. Very interesting to compare.

https://bccdc.shinyapps.io/covid19_global_epi_app/

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Always nice to have comparisons.

We hit a big record today. 589 new cases. Slowly growing in Interior Health luckily not as quickly, 24 new cases today.

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Ontario seems to be hovering around 1K cases. Some days a little more,,.some a little less. Ontario’s population is 3 times that of BC...approx 15M vs 5M.

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Interesting that Alberta is struggling with contact tracing and is limiting who it contacts leaving the rest up to individuals and i quote:Beginning Nov. 6, AHS will temporarily change their method of notifying close contacts of positive cases.

Under the new process, health-care workers will call the close contacts of cases in the following three priority groups:

• health-care workers
• minors (parents will be notified if their child has been exposed in the school setting)
• individuals who live or work within congregate or communal facilities

Anyone who is outside one of these groups and tests positive for coronavirus is asked to contact all individuals they believe they came into close contact with on their own.

"Event organizers will also still be directed to notify event attendees of an exposure and workplaces will be informed by AHS of a case and directed to send out the notification to employees."

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There will be a 1pm news conference Sat. Kind of sounds like it won't just be an update so might be some closures coming.

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Bad news should never be given on a weekend.

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Shall find out soon.

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Didn't stop Bojo telling us last week( 2 hours later than he planned too).

Think Trump received some bad news on a Saturday today, mid round of golf!

Canada seems to be on somewhat of a steady upward trend for overall cases, double in daily cases over the last month, which is roughly double the previous month - guess the question is as everyone moves further indoors, are current infection growth rates acceptable (circa 12000 daily cases by January) - or is more required? I guess even some some of the smaller cities are only a house party, large family gathering or the like away from an explosion of cases.

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567 cases announced. (411 Fraser Health, 122 Vancouver Coastal, 3 Van. Island, 22 Interior and 9 Northern)

A little over 100 in hospital now.

Transmission in a number of workplaces including retail, car dealerships, indoor physical activity, food service, and food processing.

Transmission in private settings and healthcare facilities.

Worrying increase in people requiring hospital and ICU care.

Need to take action to avoid serious consequences.

New Health Orders Issued to last for 2 weeks from today for Vancouver Coastal health and Fraser Health.

4 areas social gatherings, travel, group indoor activities and workplace safety.

All business and work sites must have adequate COVID safety plans, and bylaw and Work Safe BC will be in charge of enforcing.

No social gatherings of any size except those you live with.

Funerals and Weddings immidiete household only, no receptions at homes or public places.

Travel strong recommending essential travel only. Those in FH and VCH should not travel outside their region, and others from elsewhere should not travel to FH and VCH

Businesses, recreation that operate indoor activities must stop holding these activities. Spin, yoga, group fitness, dance classes and such.

Indoor sports where distancing cannot be maintained are suspended for next 2 weeks, school based sports not included.

Workplace Safety, all workplaces must conduct COVID daily screenings. All workers and customers must maintain social distancing, wear masks where appropriate, seeing virus spread in work settings, COVID safety plans not being followed in workplaces. Local medial health officers will shut non-compliant business down who cannot maintain COVID safety plans.

Asking businesses to work from home whenever possible.

Active inspections will be increased in FH and VCH.



More to come.....Paraphrased from the live update.