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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: [Sir James Douglas Elementary School cluster notification] | September 17, 2021 | Island Health

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_iUYfDVcAIYvY5?format=jpg&name=small

Description: BC School Covid Tracker on Twitter: "Sir James Douglas Elementary SD#61 (Victoria) has been declared a cluster"

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Subject:   Island Health Sir James Douglas Elementary School Greater Victoria School District

Title: Potential exposures in schools | October 5, 2021 | Island Health

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA815Y1VEAAQiJ2?format=png&name=900x900

Description: Caden Fanshaw on Twitter: "Still no school exposures posted here in #CityofPG as per Northern Health. This of course comes after 11 kids in a class of 20 at Southridge tested positive over the last 2 weeks. Take a look at Northern Health's and then look at Island Health's. / You can't tell me there are no school exposures happening in Northern Health. In some of the highest case rates in the province, and combined with the lowest vaccination rates. It makes no sense. / The thing that erks me is how inconsistent health authorities are, Northern Health has always done things differently than Island Health, and different from Fraser Health. / The Mayor of Vanderhoof told me there were 5 schools busses not running because the drivers were out with symptoms last week. There are currently no exposures listed for Vanderhoof schools."

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Subject:   Island Health

Title: School clusters/outbreaks requiring public notification | September 23, 2021 | Island Health

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FABdhQ2VgAUVJLL?format=png&name=900x900

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "So far, only @VanIslandHealth and @Fraserhealth are publishing incidents of clusters / outbreaks in schools. There are currently five active clusters in Island Health and one outbreak in Fraser Health on their respective websites. I could not find anything on other HA websites. / However, if you look at @BCschoolCovid 's website, which I think generally does a very credible job including publishing documentation from health authorities, you get a very different picture with almost 250 exposure events in B.C. schools this fall. https://bcschoolcovidtracker.knack.com/bc-school-covid-tracker"

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Subject:   Island Health BC School Covid Tracker Sir James Douglas Elementary School Greater Victoria School District École Mount Prevost Cowichan Valley School District École Victor-Brodeur Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique Tansor Elementary School Discovery Elementary School

Title: School clusters/outbreaks requiring public notifications | September 25, 2021 | Island Health

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAK9ka-VkAYglbO?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Salim Jiwa on Twitter: "#bcpoli Ecole Poirier Elementary in Sooke has become the 7th Vancouver Island school to have In-school transmission of COVID-19. All except one are elementary schools. Island Health classifies them all as clusters."

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Subject:   Island Health École Poirier Elementary School Sooke School District Sir James Douglas Elementary School Greater Victoria School District Brooklyn Elementary School Comox Valley Schools École Mount Prevost Cowichan Valley School District École Victor-Brodeur Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique Tansor Elementary School Discovery Elementary School

Title: School clusters/outbreaks requiring public notifications | September 27, 2021 | Island Health

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAU8oO-VQAMfO_v?format=png&name=900x900

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "There are 10 schools on Vancouver Island with clusters of #COVID19 totalling 39 days of exposures. No data on how many cases but @VanIslandHealth is the only health authority providing information on clusters in schools so kudos to them for the relative level of transparency."

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Subject:   Island Health E.J. Dunn Elementary School School District 70 Pacific Rim Tansor Elementary School Cowichan Valley School District Pleasant Valley Elementary School Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools École Poirier Elementary School Sooke School District Sir James Douglas Elementary School Greater Victoria School District Brooklyn Elementary School Comox Valley Schools École Mount Prevost École Victor-Brodeur Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique Discovery Elementary School

Title: "We have just discovered that VIHA has quietly made a change to contact tracing for schools over the break." | BC School Covid Tracker

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FG_UdV8VIAUd40e?format=jpg&name=large

Description: BC School Covid Tracker on Twitter: "We have just discovered that VIHA has quietly made a change to contact tracing for schools over the break. It is no longer involving schools in contact tracing for schools exposures that happened before the break. The information below is taken directly from the BCCDC webpage. / (https://islandhealth.ca/learn-about-health/covid-19/schools ). Among the issues - transmission IS happening, no children under 12 are fully vaccinated yet, phone calls leave no paper trail. / Due to this we are re-enforcing our request that anyone with a positive school related case contact us directly to self-report. Here are the step: 1. Email the closed school and notify them. / 2. Either cc/bcc or screenshot and send us a copy of the email sent to the school (including address fields). 3. Provide the name of the school, the exposure dates (when the individual was at school and contagious) and any other relevant info. / We will not publish names - your identity will remain anonymous. This change in practice by Island Health is incredibly disappointing! #bced #bcpoli"

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Subject:   BC School Covid Tracker Island Health BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: [COVID-19 exposures at School District 62 schools | December 13, 2021] | Island Health

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGicQYVVcAAK-gS?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Island Social Trends on Twitter: "As of Dec 13: @SD62_Sooke #COVID exposures at four schools in the #westshore: Crystal View Elementary, Dunsmuir Middle, Spencer Middle School, Belmont Secondary. #SD62 #highschool"

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Subject:   Island Health Sooke School District Dunsmuir Middle School Crystal View Elementary School Belmont Secondary School Spencer Middle School

Title: [Praise for Island Health's reporting on school clusters/outbreaks]

URL: https://twitter.com/MickSweetman/status/1442627223538700294/

Description: Mick Sweetman on Twitter: "There are 10 schools on Vancouver Island with clusters of #COVID19 totalling 39 days of exposures. No data on how many cases but @VanIslandHealth is the only health authority providing information on clusters in schools so kudos to them for the relative level of transparency."

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Subject:   Island Health E.J. Dunn Elementary School School District 70 Pacific Rim Tansor Elementary School Cowichan Valley School District Pleasant Valley Elementary School Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools École Poirier Elementary School Sooke School District Sir James Douglas Elementary School Greater Victoria School District Brooklyn Elementary School Comox Valley Schools École Victor-Brodeur Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique Discovery Elementary School

Title: [Comment about change to Island Health's COVID-19 school notifications website ]

URL: https://twitter.com/jana0C/status/1473074497926295553/

Description: Jana Kim on Twitter: "Looks like @VanIslandHealth has changed their wording on how school contact tracing is going to work over the holidays: 👀 #bced #bcpoli https://islandhealth.ca/learn-about-health/covid-19/schools"

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Subject:   Island Health

Title: "Three more schools on Island have COVID-19 transmission and clusters."

URL: https://twitter.com/realreporter/status/1442317302813265923/

Description: Salim Jiwa on Twitter: "#bcpoli Three more schools on Island have Covid-19 transmission and clusters. That makes a total of ten schools reporting clusters. Thanks @matpVI for info. Now Dr. Henry needs to act - it'd be reactionary as usual but the signs are ominous."

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Subject:   E.J. Dunn Elementary School School District 70 Pacific Rim Tansor Elementary School Cowichan Valley School District Pleasant Valley Elementary School Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools École Poirier Elementary School Sooke School District Sir James Douglas Elementary School Brooklyn Elementary School Comox Valley Schools École Mount Prevost École Victor-Brodeur Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique Discovery Elementary School Island Health Henry, Bonnie

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