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COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North)

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

In March 2020 the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) stated: "The deadly flu outbreak of 1918-19 is often called the ‘forgotten pandemic.’ Our responsibility now is to ensure the lessons of COVID-19 are not forgotten. Our collective efforts to capture and preserve the essential online elements of this unprecedented event are critical." (CARL-ABRC). The COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North) Web Archive reflects community experiences and responses to the pandemic in the region served by Vancouver Island University, documenting and supporting diverse aspects of scholarly inquiry, creativity, and community life. The Web Archive is intended to provide a body of information that will support scholarship, creativity, and study. Information rights related to web archiving include considerations of copyright and fair dealing, and of individual and community privacy. The following are among principles and resources that guide web archiving decisions: Ethics of care, for example in VIU Library’s Pledge to our user communities; OCAP® principles, and awareness of relationality and accountability to Indigenous communities, and potential impacts related to web archiving; Good practice and expert advice, emerging and accessed through communities of practice, e.g. the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC); and VIU Library, Evolution of Physical Collections: 2017-2021 VIU Library, Special Collections Guidelines (Under review 2020). Web archives are informed by available capture technologies and also by affordances of the content source; not all websites can be successfully crawled or rendered, and quality of archived versions varies. This project is supported by VIU's Special Funding for COVID-19 research projects and carried out in coordination with the University of Victoria’s COVID-19 Collection and the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition. Contact us at research.help@viu.ca with questions or for more information about content included in the Web Archive. [Working description 2021 April 6]

Subject:   Spontaneous Events Society & Culture Science & Health Vancouver Island COVID-19 (Disease)

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Title: COVID-19 in B.C.: Thousands of booster invites left unanswered | CTV News

URL: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/almost-half-a-million-b-c-booster-appointment-invitations-ignored-as-covid-19-hospitalizations-rise-1.5729989

Description: The B.C. Ministry of Health says almost half a million invitations to book COVID-19 booster appointments have gone unanswered as the province sees hospitalizations rise.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Fraser Health Island Health Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Thomson, Danette BC Nurses' Union Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  Conway, Brian ,  Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre Forrest, David

Title: COVID-19 cases disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities in B.C. | CTV News

URL: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/covid-19-cases-disproportionately-impacting-indigenous-communities-in-b-c-1.5627453

Description: The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on Indigenous communities, even though members were among the first to be vaccinated in B.C. According to the First Nations Health Authority, 14 per cent of hospitalized patients are Indigenous, even though First Nations people make up just over three per cent of B.C.'s population.

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Subject:   First Nations Health Authority McDonald, Shannon,  Conway, Brian ,  Vaccinations Variants of Concern

Title: Appointments available: Registration low for preschool COVID-19 vaccinations | Global News

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1555395696597114880/

Description: Global BC on Twitter: "B.C. kids aged six months to five years are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, but the province says the uptake has been slow. @RichardZussman has more on the numbers while @KeithBaldrey reports on what's behind the hesitancy. B.C. evening weather forecast: Aug. 4"

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Subject:   Thain, Michael Silver-Thain, Sadie Vaccinations Sweeney, Marlisse Silver Henry, Bonnie,  Conway, Brian ,  Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

Title: [Response to B.C. health officials' press conference regarding leaked BC Centre for Disease Control reports]

URL: https://twitter.com/katiederosayyj/status/1390825013989703683?s=20

Description: Katie DeRosa on Twitter: "To sum up the press conference in response to leaked @CDCofBC reports, BC’s top two public health officers were basically gaslighting journalists, insisting the #COVID19 data we’ve been asking for has been there all along if we only looked hard enough. Not true. #bcpoli / Data experts & epidemiologists such as @vb_jens Carolin Colijn, Sarah Otto & @Dr_Conway_VIDC have been sounding the alarm for months about how BC falls behind other provinces in terms of data transparency, specially re neighbourhood-level data, data broken down by race. #bcpoli / One small example of data gap. I asked Health pretty much for two weeks straight for # of P1 variant cases in Whistler to see whether numbers spiked after outbreak first declared. By the time they were offered, it was after mass vaccinations had dealt with the outbreak. #bcpoli / Also, if Health released daily data on the evolution of P.1 variant cases in Whistler over time, from start of outbreak, to peak, to a decline as vaccines were rolled out, it would give a clear picture of the effectiveness of mass vaccinations and could ease vaccine hesitancy."

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Province of British Columbia Henry, Bonnie Gustafson, Réka von Bergmann, Jens Otto, Sarah,  Conway, Brian ,  Variants of Concern BC Centre for Disease Control Colijn, Caroline Gamma Variant

Title: Parents, teachers nervous about return to classrooms as COVID-19 infections surge in B.C. | CTV News

URL: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/parents-teachers-nervous-about-return-to-classrooms-as-covid-19-infections-surge-in-b-c-1.5536569

Description: As COVID-19 cases climb and the school year nears, some Vancouver Island parents say the time for mandatory vaccinations is now.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Jollymore, Jennifer Waldron, Winona Greater Victoria Teachers' Association Ventilation,  Conway, Brian ,  Province of British Columbia Greater Victoria School District Henry, Bonnie Delta Variant Variants of Concern Brown, Rhianna

Title: COVID-19: Dix faces more calls to provide more information on variants | Vancouver Sun

URL: https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-dix-faces-calls-to-provide-more-information-on-variant-cases/

Description: Health Minister Adrian Dix faces calls to release more information on where COVID-19 variants are spreading, who is becoming infected and what sectors of the economy are hardest hit after the number of cases of the highly contagious P1 variant nearly doubled over the Easter weekend.

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Subject:   Dix, Adrian Variants of Concern von Bergmann, Jens Merrifield, Renee Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Province of British Columbia,  Conway, Brian ,  Gamma Variant Alpha Variant

Title: While Omicron spreads, B.C. vaccine clinics are closing for the holidays | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6289243

Description: While the Omicron variant rapidly spreads, community vaccine clinics across British Columbia are closing for the holidays — some for as long as two weeks.

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Subject:   Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Vaccinations Fares, Jean,  Conway, Brian ,  Dix, Adrian Northern Health Brown, Elliott Curtis, Norah Juni, Peter National Advisory Committee on Immunization Huber, Dezene AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD Vaccine

Title: 1st Canadian case of highly mutated COVID-19 virus variant BA.2.86 detected in B.C. | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-variant-first-canadian-case-bc-1.6951185

Description: Health officials in British Columbia say they have detected the first known Canadian case of the BA.2.86 COVID-19 virus variant.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Fraser Health BC Centre for Disease Control Omicron Variant Pirola Variant Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian Wastewater Surveillance,  Conway, Brian ,  Eris Variant Health Canada Zeidler, Karina Vaccinations Ventilation Vancouver Coastal Health Interior Health Island Health

Title: Local hockey teams disappointed after B.C. cancels sports tournaments due to COVID-19 | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/local-hockey-teams-disappointed-after-b-c-cancels-sports-tournaments-due-to-covid-19-929045/

Description: Dozens of teams part of the Victoria Minor Hockey Association are left feeling disappointed after the province announced it’s tightening its COVID-19 restrictions, which include cancelling sports tournaments.

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Subject:   Victoria Minor Hockey Association Chambers, Eric Reich, Nicki BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association Tostenson, Ian,  Conway, Brian ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Hockey

Title: Sonia Furstenau and David Fisman: Public health agencies are abandoning responsibility for public health while we are still in a global pandemic | Daily Guardian Canada

URL: https://www.dailyguardian.ca/sonia-furstenau-and-david-fisman-public-health-agencies-are-abandoning-responsibility-for-public-health-while-we-are-still-in-a-global-pandemic/

Description: In the sixth wave of the COVID pandemic, British Columbians have been left to their own devices, when what we need is for the provincial government to step up.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Conway, Brian ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Long COVID

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