Coronavirus
#4936
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Location: SW Ontario
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Re: Coronavirus
There is a difference between being physically disabled and unable to leave the house - which Ontario Disability Benefit pays out for and choosing to avoid risk by staying home - which ODB doesn't pay for.
#4937
Re: Coronavirus
It's time for the Sturgis bike rally in South Dakota again. Last year it helped spread Covid all over the US, so they're going to do it again and hope for better results, I guess.
#4938
Re: Coronavirus
Since moving to Stage 3 Ontario’s Covid figures have been on the rise. Last month the cases were in the mid one hundred, today it is 380.
Edit: there are approx 200,000 people in Ontario who have had the first shot, but not the 2nd. The gov. are pleading with those people to get the 2nd shot ASAP.
Edit: there are approx 200,000 people in Ontario who have had the first shot, but not the 2nd. The gov. are pleading with those people to get the 2nd shot ASAP.
Last edited by Jerseygirl; Aug 7th 2021 at 2:44 pm.
#4939
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Joined: Feb 2013
Location: BC, Canada
Posts: 3,874
Re: Coronavirus
Since moving to Stage 3 Ontario’s Covid figures have been on the rise. Last month the cases were in the mid one hundred, today it is 380.
Edit: there are approx 200,000 people in Ontario who have had the first shot, but not the 2nd. The gov. are pleading with those people to get the 2nd shot ASAP.
Edit: there are approx 200,000 people in Ontario who have had the first shot, but not the 2nd. The gov. are pleading with those people to get the 2nd shot ASAP.
BC's figures are also rising, over half of the new cases and hospitalisations are in the Interior Health Region, so they've been put under restrictions again as to numbers of people meeting inside and outside, night clubs and bars closed effective yesterday
There were 464 new cases yesterday (Friday), 275 of them in the Okanagan region of Interior Health.
24 people are in Intensive Care, all were unvaccinated. 95% of all new cases are in unvaccinated people or people who have had only 1 dose.
Vaccination rates as of Friday ............ 81.8 per cent of those 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Just under 69 per cent have received a second dose. So we have a high percentage, but the number of covid cases keeps rising, the public health people are warning that we are on the verge of a 4th wave.
#4940
Re: Coronavirus
BC's figures are also rising, over half of the new cases and hospitalisations are in the Interior Health Region, so they've been put under restrictions again as to numbers of people meeting inside and outside, night clubs and bars closed effective yesterday
There were 464 new cases yesterday (Friday), 275 of them in the Okanagan region of Interior Health.
24 people are in Intensive Care, all were unvaccinated. 95% of all new cases are in unvaccinated people or people who have had only 1 dose.
Vaccination rates as of Friday ............ 81.8 per cent of those 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Just under 69 per cent have received a second dose. So we have a high percentage, but the number of covid cases keeps rising, the public health people are warning that we are on the verge of a 4th wave.
There were 464 new cases yesterday (Friday), 275 of them in the Okanagan region of Interior Health.
24 people are in Intensive Care, all were unvaccinated. 95% of all new cases are in unvaccinated people or people who have had only 1 dose.
Vaccination rates as of Friday ............ 81.8 per cent of those 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Just under 69 per cent have received a second dose. So we have a high percentage, but the number of covid cases keeps rising, the public health people are warning that we are on the verge of a 4th wave.
The percentage of people vaccinated in Ontario is similar to that of BC.
Edit: Just noticed the UK figures have increased again.
Last edited by Jerseygirl; Aug 7th 2021 at 5:21 pm.
#4941
Re: Coronavirus
Our numbers in Sask have been trending up for a month and a half from 20 - 30 to 85 new cases yesterday, and wearing masks in grocery stores looks about 50/50. I feel a bit like odd man out with mine on, but don't care.
#4942
Re: Coronavirus
Ontario hasn’t fully come out of lockdown, but fairly close to it. We are still required to wear masks in indoor public areas/shops etc and the number of people in shops/elevators/indoor events is slightly restricted. I hope the current restrictions stay until spring.
#4944
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Re: Coronavirus
Potentially could end up in a never ending COVID saga too, Delta at least the vaccines still prevent death and severe outcomes, but as the article states, eventually a variant or 2 may completely figure out how to evade and we are back to the bottom.
"We will continue to develop more and more variants, and eventually, one or more of these variants will learn how to evade vaccine-induced immunity," Poland said. "And if that's true, we will start all over again."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/healt...ner/index.html
"We will continue to develop more and more variants, and eventually, one or more of these variants will learn how to evade vaccine-induced immunity," Poland said. "And if that's true, we will start all over again."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/healt...ner/index.html
#4945
Re: Coronavirus
Potentially could end up in a never ending COVID saga too, Delta at least the vaccines still prevent death and severe outcomes, but as the article states, eventually a variant or 2 may completely figure out how to evade and we are back to the bottom.
"We will continue to develop more and more variants, and eventually, one or more of these variants will learn how to evade vaccine-induced immunity," Poland said. "And if that's true, we will start all over again."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/healt...ner/index.html
"We will continue to develop more and more variants, and eventually, one or more of these variants will learn how to evade vaccine-induced immunity," Poland said. "And if that's true, we will start all over again."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/healt...ner/index.html
#4946
Re: Coronavirus
Easy there, Tiguan. The people who do it for a living are exponentially better at it than they were first time around. The research, the medicine, the frontline services have procedures ingrained that didn't exist 18 months ago. Even you; you're a pro now.
#4947
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Re: Coronavirus
But in the meantime i'm sure they have invested heavily in bolstering our health service and expanding facilities and finding more nurses and doctors with better pay so we don't end up in same situation again in 12 months. Oh wait i think i fell into a dream state just then. So it will be back to the same old story, overwhelmed health services and everybodys at fault for the rising cases except the experts and government officials because hey they are still learning about this.
#4948
Re: Coronavirus
But in the meantime i'm sure they have invested heavily in bolstering our health service and expanding facilities and finding more nurses and doctors with better pay so we don't end up in same situation again in 12 months. Oh wait i think i fell into a dream state just then. So it will be back to the same old story, overwhelmed health services and everybodys at fault for the rising cases except the experts and government officials because hey they are still learning about this.
#4950
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Location: BC, Canada
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Re: Coronavirus
.................. and case numbers still rising in BC, with the Okanagan having more than half of the cases, new and hospitalised.
We're not out of the woods yet, by any means.
I still think that it is going to be like the flu ................ annual shots required for the new variants developed since the last time. Only this time, it will be everyone who has to have the covid shot, not like the flu vaccine where usually just over 60s/65s, and certain occupations getting it for free.
We're not out of the woods yet, by any means.
I still think that it is going to be like the flu ................ annual shots required for the new variants developed since the last time. Only this time, it will be everyone who has to have the covid shot, not like the flu vaccine where usually just over 60s/65s, and certain occupations getting it for free.