Canadian COVID-19 News

[deblen]

Originally Posted by CatNewBee

1 death per million, and not specified of the other comorbidities is pretty shocking indeed. You can make graphics pretty scary by the right scale.

Canadians plan to do a little better than the US death rate./ Keep trolling / Len


https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/healt...day/index.html

[deblen]

Originally Posted by Scorpius

And the noose tightens. Although I really have no idea why vaccine passports are not required to enter liquor stores here.

We need the sin taxes from booze & cigs to keep ICU's open for novaxers./ L

[deblen]

Originally Posted by NaClyDog

For any alcoholics, it truly is an essential service. If they stop drinking cold turkey, they could be faced with very severe medical issues.

and they probably wouldn't be able to get medical care because the system is plugging with novaxers. / L

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by deblen

We need the sin taxes from booze & cigs to keep ICU's open for novaxers./ L

Excellent point! Healthcare's not free, after all [emoji6].

[deblen]

N.B. ,population 770,000 has had one of the best,if not the best,covid record in the country. (world?).
Delta struck in late AUG & here we are,a bare 6 wks later, back in total lockdown.
Due to our superior performance,the health dept. & govt. felt it was safe enough to completely open the province in late Aug-the first jurisdiction to do so. It was felt that the citizens of N.B. were doing such a great job-first place to be 75% 2vax & 81%1 vax.that they would continue on their own.


Today we are at 80some% 2vax & 88% 1vax But our ICU's are nearly full(with mostly novaxers),our halls are filling,our med staff,ambulances,etc. overrun.
Really discouraging.



Me & mine(except for 2 young g-children) are vaxxed,so we still have some personal concern for those boys & some concern if one of our extended vaxxed family needed emergency health care.


Sorry for venting,but we were so close./ Len


https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/new-brun...kend-1.5612019

[NaClyDog]

Originally Posted by deblen

Sorry for venting,but we were so close./ Len

Don't be sorry. That's what this place is for.

[sv_pelagia]

Originally Posted by deblen

Canadians plan to do a little better than the US death rate./ Keep trolling / Len


https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/healt...day/index.html

Len: I don't know about tr&lling (a forbidden word) but there are some posters I'm ign@ring (no, NOT you)....

[Clemson]

So trolling has come to mean any one with a different opinion? I still am baffled as to why people are discussing Covid on a sailing forum.

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by Clemson

So trolling has come to mean any one with a different opinion? I still am baffled as to why people are discussing Covid on a sailing forum.

No, trolling is... trolling.

Why is this particular thread on CF? Because over the last two years, COVID has had a significant effect on sailing in Canada, and on Canadian sailors who want to cruise in or outside of Canada.

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by Clemson

So trolling has come to mean any one with a different opinion? I still am baffled as to why people are discussing Covid on a sailing forum.

Why is this baffling? The pandemic has been the single largest factor affecting many people's cruising plans. It's had different impacts on different countries, regions and communities. This thread is an attempt to focus on Canadian Covid-19 News. I'm sure we all encourage you to share any relevant news or comments.

Trolling has nothing to do with people holding different opinions. Trolling is an explicit attempt to disrupt an online forum through the use of (according to Webster) "inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content."

[Scorpius]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

Why is this baffling? The pandemic has been the single largest factor affecting many people's cruising plans. It's had different impacts on different countries, regions and communities. This thread is an attempt to focus on Canadian Covid-19 News. I'm sure we all encourage you to share any relevant news or comments.

Trolling has nothing to do with people holding different opinions. Trolling is an explicit attempt to disrupt an online forum through the use of (according to Webster) "inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content."

Shouldn't we be using the Oxford dictionary?

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by Scorpius

Shouldn't we be using the Oxford dictionary?

Touché [emoji6]

[NaClyDog]

I have family in AB and I simply cannot see this going over well...


No indoor Thanksgiving gatherings for unvaccinated Albertans

[deblen]

Originally Posted by NaClyDog

I have family in AB and I simply cannot see this going over well...


No indoor Thanksgiving gatherings for unvaccinated Albertans

I agree-It is not a nice Thanksgiving situation here in N.B. either.


https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-i...icus-1.5612058

[GordMay]

Risk of death more than 130% higher with delta variant than original COVID virus

A new study [1], using Canadian data, suggests the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus causes more serious disease, and is associated with an increased risk of death, compared to previous strains — dangers that are drastically reduced with vaccination.

The study [1], conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto, and published yesterday, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, analyzed more than 212,000 cases of COVID-19, reported in Ontario between Feb. 7 and June 27.

They found that those infected with the alpha variant, which drove the province's third wave in the early spring, or the beta or gamma variants, were:
- 52 per cent more likely to be hospitalized,
- 89 per cent more likely to need intensive care
and
- 51 per cent more likely to die of the infection,
than those who caught the early 2020 version of the virus.

Among delta cases, they found a 108 per cent increased risk for hospitalization, 235 per cent increased risk for ICU admission, and 133 per cent increased risk for death, compared to the original virus strain.

Some of the findings echo results from previous research papers published across the globe.

The study found, people infected with variants of concern, were significantly younger, and less likely to have comorbidities, than those with non-variant infections, and the increased risk of adverse outcomes from variants persisted, even after researchers adjusted for age, sex, comorbidities, and other factors.

But researchers also looked at vaccine effectiveness, which blunted the severity of the variants, by reducing the risk of severe disease and death, in partially, and fully vaccinated people.

Nearly 77 per cent of the cases, analyzed in the study, which ended before delta firmly took hold on Ontario's caseload, were infected with alpha, beta or gamma variants, while 2.8 per cent were classified as "probable Delta infections." Roughly 22 per cent were infected with non-variants.

Fisman and his team found the delta variant was present in Ontario by April 2021, and became the dominant strain by July.

[1] “Evaluation of the relative virulence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants: a retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada” ~ by David N. Fisman MD MPH, Ashleigh R. Tuite PhD MPH
➥ https://www.cmaj.ca/sites/default/fi...maj.211248.pdf