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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: B.C. has 1.3M rapid tests in a warehouse, officials confirm after top doctor called it an 'urban myth' | CTV News

URL: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-has-1-3m-rapid-tests-in-a-warehouse-officials-confirm-after-top-doctor-called-it-an-urban-myth-1.5729530

Description: Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry told a news conference it was an “urban myth” that millions of COVID-19 rapid tests were sitting unused in a warehouse somewhere in the province. Turns out the number isn’t millions, but closer to 1.3 million, or, according to the Ministry of Health, 1,342,150 tests to be precise

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie ,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Rapid Antigen Tests Klassen, Mike Health Canada

Title: Secrecy over B.C.'s true number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients | CTV News

URL: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/secrecy-over-b-c-s-true-number-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-1.5595394

Description: Just how many British Columbians are actually in hospital with COVID-19 is a tightly-held secret, with few privy to the true number as health officials keep two sets of numbers: one public, the other internal.

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Subject:   Dix, Adrian,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Vancouver Coastal Health Royal Columbian Hospital Fraser Health Da Roza, Gerald,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Horgan, John

Title: B.C. identifies first case of U.K. coronavirus variant in Vancouver Island resident | CTV News

URL: https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/british-columbia/2020/12/27/1_5246016.html

Description: The new coronavirus variant, first identified in the U.K., has been identified in B.C., according to a statement from the provincial health officer and the B.C. Ministry of Health.

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Subject:   Island Health Variants of Concern Alpha Variant,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health

Title: COVID stats: Too soon for the lightweight touch | Island Social Trends

URL: https://islandsocialtrends.ca/covid-stats-too-soon-for-the-lightweight-touch/

Description: Variance in accuracy for Island Health data on July 8th is a case in point of how it’s far too soon to let up on attention and accuracy during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie ,  Dix, Adrian Vaccinations Variants of Concern,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Island Health Delta Variant

Title: BC removing vaccine card, daily reports despite signs of 6th wave | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/bc-removing-vaccine-card-daily-reports-despite-signs-of-6th-wave/

Description: Cases and hospitalizations are ticking upward, but BC is staying the course by removing restrictions and data sharing.

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Subject:   BC Vaccine Card Vaccinations,  Province of British Columbia ,  Wastewater Surveillance Island Health Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Dix, Adrian National Advisory Committee on Immunization Helm, Britt Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Furstenau, Sonia

Title: What we know (and don’t) about how COVID-19 affets racial minorities on Vancouver Island | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-19-race-based-data-collection-vancouver-island-bc/

Description: Experts say collecting race-based data could help drive better public health decisions, but that isn't happening.

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Subject:   Cowichan Tribes Furstenau, Sonia First Nations Health Authority Island Health Ahousaht First Nation Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations Louie, Greg Heiltsuk Nation Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council Tŝilhqot'in National Government Tŝilhqot'in Nation Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Snuneymuxw First Nation Govender, Kasari,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Kobayashi, Karen Brown, Boma BC Centre for Disease Control Gustafson, Réka

Title: Third wave of COVID-19 crashes over Vancouver Island | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-19-third-wave-vancouver-island/

Description: After escaping the brunt of COVID-19 illnesses and fatalities for most of last year, the third wave of the pandemic is now starting to strain public health workers in the Island Health region.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Island Health Stanwick, Richard Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort Gamma Variant Law, Dan Vaccinations Alpha Variant BC Ferries Beta Variant Karlen, Dean,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Province of British Columbia ,  BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: Updated: What the leaked COVID-19 report tells us about Vancouver Island | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/leaked-covid-19-report-vancouver-island/

Description: On Thursday, the Vancouver Sun published a pair of leaked internal BC Centre for Disease Control reports that show the province has been collecting information about COVID-19 transmission and vaccinations on a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood basis, along with other key pieces of data that experts and journalists have been requesting for months. This in-depth information has never been shared with the public.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia,  Province of British Columbia ,  Vancouver Sun BC Centre for Disease Control,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Gustafson, Réka Vaccinations Fraser Health Island Health Leyne, Andrew Screech, David Variants of Concern Northern Health Alpha Variant Gamma Variant Karlen, Dean

Title: ‘Mass disabling event’: Advocates fear tsunami of long COVID patients as Omicron spreads unchecked | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/long-covid-omicron/

Description: There are still a lot of unknowns about the post-viral syndrome, and COVID long haulers are struggling to find support.

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Subject:   Willis, Jan Long COVID McGarva, Jonah Long COVID Canada WorkSafeBC Zeidler, Karina,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Tam, Theresa,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Vaccinations Delta Variant Provincial Health Services Authority Goulding, Susie COVID Long-Haulers Support Group Canada

Title: Analyzing BC’s new restrictions amid exponential COVID-19 growth | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/new-restrictions-exponential-covid-19-growth/

Description: Vancouver Island has seen a rapid increase in cases—but variant growth remains much lower here than on mainland.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Wang, Flight Horgan, John Island Health,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Gamma Variant Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort Alpha Variant Beta Variant Stanwick, Richard Mount Washington Alpine Ski Resort Brouselle, Astrid British Columbia Teachers’ Federation Mooring, Teri Ventilation Vaccinations AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD Vaccine Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Furstenau, Sonia

Title: How safe is BC’s safe restart plan for Vancouver Island? | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/safe-restart-plan-vancouver-island-delta-variant/

Description: Uncertainties, questions, and data gaps continue to plague BC’s provincial restart plan as we inch closer and closer to pre-COVID life.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia ,  Island Health Variants of Concern Otto, Sarah Stanwick, Richard Delta Variant BC Centre for Disease Control BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Fraser Health Vaccinations,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Vancouver Coastal Health

Title: Victoria hospitals, long COVID clinic brace for summer wave of COVID-19 reinfections | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/summer-wave-covid-19-reinfections/

Description: New subvariants that can get past antibodies are on the rise in BC, while new research shows reinfections increase overall health risks.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Island Health Long COVID Saanich Peninsula Hospital Unger, Jeff Otto, Sarah Omicron Variant,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Burn-Murdoch, John Victoria General Hospital Royal Jubilee Hospital Vaccinations National Advisory Committee on Immunization,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Delta Variant BC Centre for Disease Control Olsen, Tyler

Title: The beginning of Vancouver Island’s fourth wave is here | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/the-beginning-of-vancouver-islands-fourth-wave-is-here/

Description: Every new case on the Island has for weeks been the faster-spreading Delta variant. Here's what that means.

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Subject:   Delta Variant Variants of Concern Otto, Sarah BC COVID-19 Modelling Group von Bergmann, Jens Interior Health Fraser Health Vancouver Coastal Health Vaccinations,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Alpha Variant Gamma Variant Karlen, Dean Island Health,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Fisman, David

Title: The Victoria physicist predicting the future of the pandemic | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/uvic-physicist-predicting-future-covid-pandemic/

Description: Dr. Dean Karlen has thus far accurately predicted which way the pandemic will go. We talked to him about how he's done it and what he expects now.

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Subject:   Karlen, Dean University of Victoria,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Variants of Concern BC Centre for Disease Control Island Health,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Vaccinations Alpha Variant Beta Variant

Title: Vancouver Island is awash with Omicron. What are authorities doing to slow it? | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/vancouver-island-omicron-covid-fifth-wave/

Description: Data from other jurisdictions show the Island is in for a rough month to come, but authorities are still denying basic facts about the virus.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Omicron Variant,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Northgate Chuch University of Victoria Island Health Rapid Antigen Tests Vaccinations Contandriopoulos, Damien Stanwick, Richard University of Victoria | Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities,  Province of British Columbia ,  Dix, Adrian Health Canada National Advisory Committee on Immunization College of Pharmacists of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Karlen, Dean BC Centre for Disease Control Protect Our Province BC Filiatrault, Lyne Gasperowicz, Malgorzata Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

Title: Victoria healthcare workers brace for Omicron’s impact on nearly full hospitals | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/victoria-healthcare-workers-brace-omicron-full-hospitals/

Description: Island Health is pleading with workers to take extra shifts, while some doctors and nurses say the province isn’t following the science on staff protection.

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Subject:   Island Health Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Tan, Amy Delta Variant Otto, Sarah BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Dix, Adrian Karlen, Dean University of Victoria,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Hinshaw, Deena Government of Canada Cowichan District Hospital,  Henry, Bonnie

Title: COVID-19 cases among kids in B.C. saw highest rise among those 5 to 11 but are declining, health officials say | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6237359

Description: Children aged five to 11 in British Columbia had been contracting COVID-19 at higher rates compared with kids in other age groups, but an uptick in vaccination rates has helped reduce those numbers, health officials said Thursday. The province says 550 cases were diagnosed between Oct. 26 and Nov. 1 from 14,295 total cases in that age group since the pandemic began.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie ,  Vaccinations,  Province of British Columbia

Title: Modelling group says B.C.'s under-reporting of COVID-19 data makes personal risk assessment harder | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6617650

Description: An independent modelling group says that B.C. is under-reporting all major COVID-19 metrics, making it impossible for residents to know their true risk.

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Subject:   BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Otto, Sarah,  Henry, Bonnie ,  BC Centre for Disease Control Omicron Variant Variants of Concerns,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Vaccinations

Title: ‘Show the work’: Doctors skeptical of B.C.'s rapid test strategy, question Henry's rationale | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/doctors-skeptical-of-b-c-s-rapid-test-strategy-question-henrys-rationale-927627/

Description: Physicians say recent remarks about rapid antigen tests from B.C.’s provincial health officer are misleading, inconsistent and completely inaccurate at times.

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Subject:   Rapid Antigen Tests,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Leung, Victor,  Province of British Columbia ,  Filiatrault, Lyne University of Victoria Health Canada Hasan, Dalia COVID Test Finders Government of Canada Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health

Title: Physician urges B.C. to provide free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/physicians-urge-b-c-to-provide-free-covid-19-rapid-antigen-tests-923865/

Description: A doctor behind a grassroots initiative that helps Canadians locate COVID-19 rapid antigen tests is among those calling on B.C. to make those tests free.

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Subject:   Rapid Antigen Tests Hasan, Dalia Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Government of Canada Tan, Amy BC Centre for Disease Control,  Henry, Bonnie ,  COVID Test Finders,  Province of British Columbia ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Title: Child care workers have been left behind during the pandemic. Will this fall be different | The Maple

URL: https://www.readthemaple.com/child-care-workers-have-been-left-behind-during-the-pandemic-will-this-fall-be-different/

Description: Debates have raged about the best way to prevent the spread of COVID in schools, but a key part of the education system is often left out of these discussions: Child care.

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Subject:   Monahan, Nina Day Care Centres,  Province of British Columbia ,  Variants of Concern Social Research and Development Corporation Early Childhood Educators of BC Gawlick, Emily Barkved, Kelsi Omicron Variant Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Children and Family Development Rapid Antigen Tests Lysyshyn, Mark WorkSafeBC BC Centre for Disease Control,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Long COVID Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education Whiteside, Jennifer Chen, Katrina Irwin, Sue Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education and Child Care Government of Canada Zeidler, Karina Vancouver School Board Ventilation

Title: B.C. unveils new "what you don't know can't hurt anyone" COVID strategy | The Beaverton

URL: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2022/01/b-c-unveils-new-what-you-dont-know-cant-hurt-anyone-covid-strategy/

Description: After weeks of struggling to adapt their approach to COVID in light of a large testing deficit and a completely unknown amount of infections within the population, the B.C. provincial government has announced a new plan that relies on everyone who can’t get tested simply ignoring COVID and hoping it goes away.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia ,  Dix, Adrian,  Henry, Bonnie

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