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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: Positivity of COVID-19 tests in B.C. | March 1, 2020 to December 19, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHGeNL5X0AcRTt6?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "The provincial average for test positivity in B.C. is now 5% up from 3% just a week ago. If the sheer number of people trying to access testing continues to increase it's only a matter of time before the entire testing system is overwhelmed. I expect they will restrict testing."

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Title: Rate of cases of COVID-19 in BC by age group per 100,000 | July 5 to December 20, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHGhyURX0AEBgtv?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "I think the government should be doing boosters much faster, but the age-based rollout seems to be working. Cases in the 80+ group have fallen and are staying low while the rate in the 60-79 group is increasing much slower than the <60 age groups. https://chly.ca/local-news/2020/3/28/covid-19-on-vancouver-island-by-the-numbers"

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Title: Number of people immunized for COVID-19 in BC. | December 19, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHGmiVuWUAQDZPD?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "Speaking of boosters, it looks like B.C. has about 14% of the population with a third dose now, while the coverage ranges from 23% for First Nations people to 9.7% in Northern Health. Fraser is at 11.3% boosted, VCH 13.2%, Vancouver Island 16.4%, Interior 17.4%. #COVID19BC"

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Subject:   Island Health Vaccinations First Nations Health Authority Fraser Health Interior Health Northern Health Vancouver Coastal Health

Title: Rate of First Nations and all COVID-19 cases in B.C. | September 7, 2020 to December 15, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHGoZFqXwAY4wfj?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "It's been a few weeks since I updated the data from @fnha on cases of #COVID19 among First Nations people in B.C. In a rare spot of good news today we can see that the rate of Covid for FN people was down to almost the same rate as in B.C. as a whole on Dec. 15. #COVID19BC"

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Subject:   First Nations Health Authority

Title: [Comment on Max Holmes' attendance at UBC student press conference]

URL: https://twitter.com/MickSweetman/status/1472840107145109505/

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "This is what happens when student members of university board of governors aren’t completely ambitious toadies and refuse to carry water for the university and government. Well done."

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Subject:   Holmes, Max University of British Columbia

Title: [Comment on Island Health's vaccination clinic in Nanaimo]

URL: https://twitter.com/MickSweetman/status/1473029379777257485/

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "Toronto Public Health set up a mass vaccine clinic quadrupling its capacity over the weekend. Meanwhile in #Nanaimo @VanIslandHealth 's small vaccine clinic will remain closed until Friday, be open for under 7 hours, then close again until Dec. 27. https://twitter.com/joe_cressy/status/1473015531854868492 #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Vaccinations Island Health Toronto Public Health

Title: [Comments on lack of capacity and urgency at Island Health's vaccination clinics in Nanaimo]

URL: https://twitter.com/MickSweetman/status/1473030275215020040/

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "I deleted a previous tweet as the small clinic in #Nanaimo was open this weekend for 5-11 year-old appointments. I regret the error, but the bigger point about a lack of capacity and urgency stands. / When it is open the aim is for 1,000 shots a day, but that is resulting in long lines of people waiting for their shot inside the mall. The physical space and number of staff are reduced compared to the mass clinic at Beben Park in the spring/summer (which was well organized). / Follow up, of sorts, I asked Island Health to clarify what days the vaccine clinics are open this week and was told that they would look into it, then the clinic location website with that information was taken down entirely. / Just wanted to pull this over from another thread. Looks like the #Nanaimo vaccine clinic will be open this week for adult first-dose walk ins and 5-11 year old vaccinations now with the exception of the stat holidays."

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Subject:   Sweetman, Mick Island Health Vaccinations Beban Park Social Centre Nanaimo North Town Centre

Title: "I will keep doing my charts, but the case counts will likely become less and less of a useful indicator."

URL: https://twitter.com/MickSweetman/status/1473136277839044609/

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "I will keep doing my charts, but the case counts will likely become less and less of a useful indicator. I can't say how many more cases are actually in B.C. right now but it is safe to assume it is much higher than the confirmed case counts."

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