Covid-19

[the watcher]

From what I can glean from "Covid Tracker Canada " a U of S project, we( MB ) are a shade under %14 vaccinated.  Alberta a bit over %14. BC + Ontario a bit over% 17. Quebec over% 20 .Nova Scotia is under %11. What I'm not sure about is if those numbers include our indigenous communities and if all provinces report that the same.

[JCon]

1 minute ago, the watcher said:

From what I can glean from "Covid Tracker Canada " a U of S project, we( MB ) are a shade under %14 vaccinated.  Alberta a bit over %14. BC + Ontario a bit over% 17. Quebec over% 20 .Nova Scotia is under %11. What I'm not sure about is if those numbers include our indigenous communities and if all provinces report that the same.

 

 

[the watcher]

9 minutes ago, JCon said:

 

 

So in all likelihood  the difference between the %14  reported by the U of S and Kives%18 is the lower amount probably doesn't include the ones by indigenous  communities. OR the U of S didn't have today's numbers although it said was reporting as of Friday at noon 

[JCon]

Just now, the watcher said:

So in all likelihood  the difference between the %14  reported by the U of S and Kives%18 is the lower amount probably doesn't include the ones by indigenous  communities. OR the U of S didn't have today's numbers although it said was reporting as of Friday at noon 

The UoS info is updated at a certain point in time and I suspect they were just behind. Kives was live-tweeting the update. 

[JCon]

Regardless of how slow things have been to get going, we're still on pace to get everyone a shot by the end of June. That's great news. 

 

 

[Noeller]

Further to JCon: 

 

[iHeart]

 

[Tracker]

6 minutes ago, iHeart said:

 

We have a week, maybe two to curtail the spread before we experience what Ontario is going through.

[Tracker]

How Cuba beat the pandemic: From developing new vaccines to sending doctors overseas to help others
   
Since last year, approximately 440 Cubans have died from COVID-19, giving Cuba one of the lowest death rates per capita in the world. Cuba is also developing five COVID-19 vaccines, including two which have entered stage 3 trials. Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system for decades, in part because of the six-decade U.S. embargo that has made it harder for Cuba to import equipment and raw materials from other countries. That investment, coupled with the country's free, universal healthcare system, has helped Cuba keep the virus under control and quickly develop vaccines against it, says Dr. Rolando Pérez Rodríguez, the director of science and innovation at BioCubaFarma, which oversees Cuba's medicine development. "We have long experience with these kinds of technologies," he says. We also speak with Reed Lindsay, journalist and founder of the independent, Cuba-focused media organization Belly of the Beast, who says U.S. sanctions on Cuba continue to cripple the country. "Cuba is going through an unbelievable economic crisis, and the sanctions have been absolutely devastating," says Lindsay.

How Cuba beat the pandemic: From developing new vaccines to sending doctors overseas to help others - Alternet.org

[bustamente]

NEW Last updated: April 10, 2021

Public health officials advise that one additional death in a person with COVID-19 is being reported today:

a female in her 80s from the Winnipeg health region.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.7 per cent provincially and 5.2 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 135 new cases of the virus have been identified. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 35,104. 

Today’s COVID-19 data shows:

four cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region; 
33 cases in the Northern health region;  
nine cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;  
18 cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region; and  
71 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
1,259 active cases and 32,896 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19; 
63 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 78 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 141 hospitalizations; 
14 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 18 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care, for a total of 32 ICU patients; 
Due to a data correction, one death that had been reported earlier has been removed so the total number of deaths in people with COVID-19 is 949; and
the total number of screened or sequenced cases related to variants of concern for the following:
B.1.1.7 is 332;
B.1.351 is 20;
cases that have not been categorized is 24; and
the total number of variant of concern cases is 376.
Laboratory testing numbers show 2,031 tests were completed yesterday, bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 601,994. 

Outbreaks have been declared at Donwood Manor in Winnipeg and Boyne Lodge Personal Care Home in Carman. The facilities have been moved to the Critical (red) level on the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System.

The outbreak is declared over at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Sarto. 

Additional data related to COVID-19, including data on outbreaks as well as some downloadable and historic data, can be found at https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/.

Public health officials advise of a possible exposure to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern on April 1 at the Costco (Regent), 1499 Regent Ave. between 2 and 3 p.m. and the No Frills (Plessis), 1500 Plessis Rd. Unit A, between 2:30 and 4 p.m.  Any person concerned about their exposure to or risk of having COVID-19 should call Health Links–Info Santé at 204-788-8200 or (toll-free) 1-888-315-9257 to be screened to see if a test is required. For up-to-date information on testing sites, visit www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/locations.html.

Possible exposure locations are listed online by region at the province’s #RestartMB Pandemic Response System webpage. For up-to-date information on possible public exposures to COVID-19 in regions, visit www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates/flights.html#event and click on your region.

Edited April 10, 2021 by bustamente

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

36 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Possible exposure locations are listed online by region at the province’s #RestartMB Pandemic Response System webpage. For up-to-date information on possible public exposures to COVID-19 in regions, visit www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates/flights.html#event and click on your region.

 

Here is the link... 

https://www.manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/winnipeg/index.html#exposure

[FrostyWinnipeg]

4 hours ago, Tracker said:

How Cuba beat the pandemic: From developing new vaccines to sending doctors overseas to help others
   
Since last year, approximately 440 Cubans have died from COVID-19, giving Cuba one of the lowest death rates per capita in the world. Cuba is also developing five COVID-19 vaccines, including two which have entered stage 3 trials. Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system for decades, in part because of the six-decade U.S. embargo that has made it harder for Cuba to import equipment and raw materials from other countries. That investment, coupled with the country's free, universal healthcare system, has helped Cuba keep the virus under control and quickly develop vaccines against it, says Dr. Rolando Pérez Rodríguez, the director of science and innovation at BioCubaFarma, which oversees Cuba's medicine development. "We have long experience with these kinds of technologies," he says. We also speak with Reed Lindsay, journalist and founder of the independent, Cuba-focused media organization Belly of the Beast, who says U.S. sanctions on Cuba continue to cripple the country. "Cuba is going through an unbelievable economic crisis, and the sanctions have been absolutely devastating," says Lindsay.

How Cuba beat the pandemic: From developing new vaccines to sending doctors overseas to help others - Alternet.org

Yeah but its an island  that people couldnt fly too. Martial Law probably solved covid there.

My Rexall is now taking appointments for AstraZen.

[Mark H.]

Our family doc phoned yesterday - my parents are booked for April 19. Rural clinics are receiving vaccines with which to run 1 or 2 day clinics. 

[SpeedFlex27]

On 2021-04-06 at 10:26 PM, 17to85 said:

you know what, the restrictions for restaurants will help. It is crazy how busy those places have become and none of the staff care about households (and I don't blame them, they don't need to deal with that crap) 

 

I feel bad for business owners who keep getting jerked around but people have proven time and time again in the past year that they can't be trusted to do the right thing. 

Governments like Kenney here in Alberta do things halfway which pisses everyone off. Some think they go too far. Others not enough. Very few say he got it right. So, as 68% of Albertans polled say Kenney isn't doing enough then shut things down. make a majority of Albertans satisfied at least & let his Neandertal rural MLA's be unhappy. To me, that's the only way he'll save his government now. 

[Tracker]

2 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Yeah but its an island  that people couldn't fly to. Martial Law probably solved covid there.

My Rexall is now taking appointments for AstraZen.

That Cuba is an relatively isolated island helps, but their infant mortality, maternal morbidity and life expectancy is better than the USA.  And they do not have access to the drugs, MRIs and so forth that Americans do.

Edited April 11, 2021 by Tracker

[FrostyWinnipeg]

14 minutes ago, Tracker said:

That Cuba is an relatively isolated island helps, but their infant mortality, maternal morbidity and life expectancy is better than the USA.  And they do not have access to the drugs, MRIs and so forth.

Guns

 

[SpeedFlex27]

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Guns

 

They have lots of 1959 Fords, Chryslers, Chevys, Pontiacs, Buicks & Oldsmobiles. 

[Tracker]

China Finally Admits Its COVID-19 Vaccine Isn't Working So Well

-Reuters
In a somewhat unusual moment of transparency, China has finally admitted its COVID—19 vaccines don't all provide much protection. China's Sinovac previously said trials in Brazil showed around 50 percent efficacy in preventing infection and Sinopharm's vaccines have efficacy rates of 79.34 percent, while the efficacy for CanSino is 65. Pfizer and Moderna have efficacy rates of 95 and 94 percent, respectively. Speaking at a medical conference Saturday, Gao Fu, the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, admitted that Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” and questioned whether it was time to pair them with other vaccines. “It’s now under formal consideration whether we should use different vaccines from different technical lines for the immunization process,” he added, according to the Associated Press. Beijing has not approved any foreign-made vaccines for use in China, where the pandemic started in late 2019.

[FrostyWinnipeg]

 

[iHeart]

Any day there isn't any news of variants is a good day, but Bartley may still be posting so I can't tell

 

Edited April 11, 2021 by iHeart

[bustamente]

Day to day cases haven't skyrocketed like some of the other Provinces, but the tpr is becoming a bit of a concern

[the watcher]

Arrived at Morden Super site for 5:40 appointment.Came in at 5:25 .Needled and Done and waiting the 15 minutes by 5:45. It can't get much better than that.

Edited April 11, 2021 by the watcher

[Mark H.]

We are approaching 1/4 of our population with at least one covid shot.  That "should' mean a good number of our vulnerable citizens are protected. 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

2 hours ago, the watcher said:

Arrived at Morden Super site for 5:40 appointment.Came in at 5:25 .Needled and Done and waiting the 15 minutes by 5:45. It can't get much better than that.

Donut? Coffee?

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Donut? Coffee?

Not even a lollipop or happyface stamp.