COVID-19 >>"True and Helpful" Covid Information Thread

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Yes. More testing = higher #s they find without necessarily any change on the ground



Ours is spiking more of late, but then we were really closed down earlier



And yes, I had found something on ventilators way back  and posted it about them working against the patient .. that unlike pneumonia, the body muscles can still do the work and the ventilators prevented that  .. and that high flow oxygen was better as it alone could bring blood level up - Seems the guy knew what he was talking about

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Canada had 1454 cases today of COVID without Alberta and BC's infection numbers.

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https://globalnews.ca/news/7370347/lynn-valley-hoax-charge-coronavirus/?utm_source=NewsletterBc&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=2020">Here's a horrific case right at the start of this where a hoax call killed people.



The man accused of making a hoax phone call to the North Vancouver long-term care home at the centre of one of B.C.'s deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks has been charged.



The B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed Wednesday that twenty-six-year-old Taymour Aghati of Vancouver was charged last week with a single count of conveying false information with intent to injure.



North Vancouver arrested and released Aghati in July.



That month, the Lynn Valley Care Centre revealed it had been targeted with the hoax call in the early morning hours of March 8, which it said appeared to originate from health authorities.





That was just hours after health officials publicly announced the outbreak at the facility — the first at a long-term care home in B.C.



At the time, the care centre said the call "deeply alarmed" staff, some of whom were "reluctant to come to work" as a result.





Staff learned the next day that the call had been a hoax, but the care centre said that "a great deal of harm had already been done to our capacity to provide" care.





In the weeks to come, 79 people would contract COVID-19 at the home and 20 would die.



Aghati is due in North Vancouver Provincial Court on Oct. 1.





{I can't find all the details but long story short, this call caused many staff to not show up at the very time they were most needed - I cannot find if it was someone at Prov. Health care or an employee at the Care Home .. but great harm was done]

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Since Canada, has no plan to effectively deal with COVID, provinces will default to lock downs again.



Canada reports over 2,000 new coronavirus cases for first time since start of pandemic



Canada reported 2,122 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, of which 2,049 were diagnosed in the last 24 hours.



It was the highest daily case total Canada has seen, though 2,777 cases were recorded on May 3 due to Quebec adjusting its total by more than 1,300 because of a computer issue.



However, testing has increased dramatically since then, with Canada administering 101,985 tests on Friday compared to the 29,855 on May 3.



The virus has now claimed the lives of 9,409 people in Canada, while a total of 162,490 infections have been identified across the country.



A total of 137,614 patients have since recovered from the virus as of Friday, and over 8.9 million tests have been administered.



Quebec announced the highest increase in COVID-19 cases among all provinces Friday, with 1,052 newly confirmed infections. The new case data, which brings Quebec's total infections to 76,273, is the highest increase in lab-confirmed infections since the province reported an additional 1,110 cases on May 1.



Another seven deaths were also reported by authorities in the provinces, though they had occurred sometime in September. The province remains the hardest-hit area in Canada, and has seen a total of 5,857 fatalities to date.



Ontario added 732 new coronavirus cases and 76 more deaths on Friday, though 73 of the infections and 74 of the fatalities had occurred over the spring and summer and were added as a result of a data cleanup.



Manitoba announced 43 new cases on Friday. The province, which has to date seen 21 deaths from the virus, now has 2,072 COVID-19 cases — of which an unknown number are considered probable cases.



Alberta reported 122 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, bringing its total lab-confirmed cases to 18,357. Another three deaths were reported by health authorities Friday, raising the official death toll to 272.



Saskatchewan added 13 new cases during their daily update Friday, increasing its overall virus cases to 1,940. The province's death toll stands at 24. Friday marks the third day in a row the province recorded a double-digit increase of new cases.



British Columbia announced 161 new cases on Friday. The cases include two that are considered "epidemiologically-linked," which are patients who exhibit COVID-19 symptoms and were in close proximity to people who tested for the virus, but were never diagnosed.

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We definitely are increasing new  cases right across the land



The improved treatments (more knowledge from past experience with a new virus) are helping to reduce average severity)

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We definitely are increasing new  cases right across the land



The improved treatments (more knowledge from past experience with a new virus) are helping to reduce average severity)

Deena Hinshaw, the Alberta top infectious disease doc says trick or treating will go ahead. However, city council may stop it. I think we have the third highest urban infection rates after Montreal and Toronto.

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We definitely are increasing new  cases right across the land



The improved treatments (more knowledge from past experience with a new virus) are helping to reduce average severity)

Deena Hinshaw, the Alberta top infectious disease doc says trick or treating will go ahead. However, city council may stop it. I think we have the third highest urban infection rates after Montreal and Toronto.

I live in a condo. If door to door trick or treating was cancelled, I wouldn't know about it.

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System better prepared for second wave, but numbers trending in wrong direction



Dr. Matthew Oughton, an infectious disease specialist at Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, says the second wave of the pandemic in Canada is largely being spread among younger, healthier populations than it was in the spring, when long-term care homes were hit hardest.



In Ontario, at the end of April, 45% of all cases were being diagnosed in people over the age of 60, while people under 40 accounted for less than 25%. On Sept. 29, people 60 and older made up 11% of new cases, while those under 40 accounted for 62%. When you couple that with the expanded knowledge about how to treat this virus, it means more people are able to ride out the disease out of hospital, and fewer people are dying.



National data show April, May and June recorded 60% of the total cases in Canada thus far, but 91% of the deaths. The next three months accounted for 34% of total cases, and just 8% of all deaths.

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Good news for Dinky..



But, it doesn't say if the state has relaxed some of the most outrageous lock down restrictions in the world.



Australia's Victoria state reaches lower infection milestone



SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's city of Melbourne, capital of the coronavirus hotspot state of Victoria, on Wednesday reported the lowest two-week average of new cases after a second contagion wave that led to one of the world's toughest lockdowns.



For the first time since the second coronavirus outbreak caused more than 800 deaths in the state - more than 90% of the country's 897 virus-related deaths - the two-week average has fallen below 10.



The metric is key as officials in the second-most-populous state are reluctant to ease mobility restrictions until the rolling average in the two-week window falls below five.



"The strategy is working," premier Daniel Andrews told reporters at his daily briefing. "Its success is pinned ultimately to whether symptomatic people come forward and get tested."



Although the number of deaths and infections in Australia from COVID-19 has been low compared with many other countries, the outbreak has driven the country to its deepest economic slump on record.



On Tuesday, Australia's conservative government unveiled billions in fiscal stimulus as part of plans to boost jobs and help its economy out of its historic recession.



Its budget assumes the country will be able to contain COVID-19 outbreaks by the end of the year, the majority of its inter-state borders will be reopened, and a vaccine will be developed in 2021.

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Dinky's state went nuts.

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Europe had seven hundred thousand new infections in the past week.

 

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The increase is everywhere



https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/10/16/its-april-all-over-again-a-look-at-the-numbers-shows-ontario-could-be-on-the-brink-of-another-long-term-care-catastrophe.html">It's April all over again. A look at the numbers shows Ontario could be on the brink of another long-term-care catastrophe



Seniors advocates and medical professionals are warning we could be on the cusp of another long-term-care catastrophe as COVID-19 cases in Ontario homes hover around similar numbers seen in early April — just two weeks before a massive spike of infections tore through hundreds of facilities.



"I absolutely am very terrified and worried," said Dr. Amit Arya, a palliative care physician specializing in long-term care who witnessed first-hand the devastation of the first wave in GTA facilities.



 "We have to really realize that long-term care is not a parallel universe. More spread of COVID-19 in the community increases the risk of an outbreak starting in long-term-care facilities."

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Long term care facilities are one place where lock downs are warranted.

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Absolutely.

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Long term care facilities are one place where lock downs are warranted.

Ontario is probably doing that.