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

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

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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]

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Title: Public health communicable disease guidelines for K-12 schools | BC Centre for Disease Control & BC Ministry of Health

URL: http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/COVID_public_guidance/Guidance-k-12-schools.pdf

Description: This document outlines the prevention measures recommended for public, independent, and First Nations K-12 schools in B.C. to reduce the risk of communicable diseases, including COVID-19 in K-12 schools.

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Province of British Columbia Vaccinations,  Ventilation

Title: Return to campus public health guidance | BC Centre for Disease Control, Post-secondary public health guidance | BC Centre for Disease Control

URL: http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/COVID_public_guidance/Public_Health_Guidance_Campus.pdf

Description: This document outlines the prevention measures recommended by public health for post-secondary institutions in B.C. to reduce the risk of communicable diseases, including COVID-19, on campus.

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Province of British Columbia Vaccinations,  Ventilation

Title: Wildfire smoke and COVID-19 in long-term care and assisted living facilities | BC Centre for Disease Control

URL: http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Professionals-Site/Documents/Wildfire_Smoke_Care_Facilities.pdf

Description: Wildfire season brings the threat of severe smoke pollution, and good preparation is even more critical in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in B.C. Many residents of long-term care and assisted living facilities are vulnerable to both threats.

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Province of British Columbia,  Ventilation

Title: [COVID-19 safety measures in schools Q&A: Part 2] | November 5, 2021 | Ministry of Education | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://bccpac.bc.ca/images/Documents/Resources/Nov-5-2021-QA-from-MoE-CDC-to-BCCPAC_Pt2.pdf

Description: DPAC delegates asked questions of Dr. Réka Gustafson and the Hon. Jennifer Whiteside with respect to the current health and safety measures in schools at a recorded session on October 5, 2021. This is part two of the answers to questions not answered live. Responses have been consolidated for the same questions and are provided on behalf of the Ministry of Education and BC Centre for Disease Control.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils,  Ventilation ,  Zoom

Title: What are we doing to BC kids? | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://mailchi.mp/368ba5043232/its-been-a-busy-week-for-pop-bc-9114489?e=de53dc3552

Description: Deceptive messaging on kids and COVID by BC Public Health promoting dangerous myths are nothing new.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC Filiatrault, Lyne Henry, Bonnie Lysyshyn, Mark,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Ventilation ,  Lauterbauch, Karl Dix, Adrian Long COVID Vaccinations

Title: Health, safety remain focus for new school year | August 24, 2021 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021EDUC0058-001663/

Description: B.C. students will return to school next month and can look forward to full-time, in-person learning and resuming sports, music and other extracurricular activities, while mask requirements and other health and safety measures remain in place to keep schools safe.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education Whiteside, Jennifer,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Vancouver Coastal Health Fraser Health Henry, Bonnie Vaccinations,  Ventilation ,  Ballem, Penny

Title: Nanaimo District Teachers' Association calls on School District 68 Nanaimo-Ladysmith to immediately close schools until air quality returns to safe levels | September 14, 2020 | Nanaimo District Teachers' Association

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eh6ixJDU8AECGSC?format=jpg&name=900x900

Description: Mariah Charleson | łučinƛcuta on Twitter: "Nanaimo District Teachers Association Calls on School District 68 to immediately close schools until air quality returns to safe levels."

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Subject:   Nanaimo District Teachers' Association Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Cilaire Elementary School Ladysmith Intermediate School,  Ventilation

Title: "BC's unsafe schools"

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIxlnZJUUAAcpD7?format=jpg&name=900x900

Description: patti on Twitter: "When inquiries/studies are finished, the most callous failing of the PHO/BCCDC/BC govt will be #BCUnsafeSchools their failure to give correct information, collect unbiased, scientifically sound info, & their refusal to acknowledge emerging science & pivot policies for BC schools."

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Subject:   Vaccinations,  Ventilation ,  Province of British Columbia,  BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: The most vulnerable people in B.C. | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://protectbc.ca/most-vulnerable-in-bc/

Description: Here we are, with plenty of evidence-based tools to contain COVID-19, and yet long term care is still unsafe, both for residents and for health care workers.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC Little Mountain Place,  Ventilation ,  Lynn Valley Care Centre Province of British Columbia Vancouver Coastal Health Northern Health,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Influenza

Title: Open letter to all British Columbians: Just say no to "letting COVID rip.” | Protect Our Province BC

URL: https://protectbc.ca/open-letter-to-all-british-columbians-just-say-no-to-letting-covid-rip/

Description: We urge you to say NO to the wave of mass infection, mass disability and death anticipated, and due to the policies of our Minister of Health Adrian Dix and the Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry – something they claim they cannot stop.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC Dix, Adrian Henry, Bonnie Long COVID,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Skowronski, Danuta Lauterbach, Karl Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Nicholson, Jeremy Filiatrault, Lyne Vaccinations,  Ventilation

Title: Provincial COVID-19 communicable disease guidelines for K-12 settings | August 24, 2021 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://sd70storage.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/medialib/bcprovincialcovid-19communicablediseaseguidelinesfork-12settings.81698f802.pdf

Description: This document was developed by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the BC Centre for Disease Control, Indigenous rightsholders and education partners including teachers, parents and school leaders to outline the principles and requirements for maintaining safe learning environments. These comprehensive guidelines build on the Public Health Communicable Disease Guidance for K-12 Schools developed by the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) to ensure schools have effective measures in place to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Vaccinations,  Ventilation

Title: 'Good air means everything' in schools | The Tyee

URL: https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/09/20/Schools-Good-Air-Everything/

Description: Vancouver parents want information on ventilation and filtration systems as kids start a new school year.

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Subject:   Ventilation ,  Vancouver School Board Vancouver District Parents Advisory Council Government of Canada Khanna, Vic Martins, Kyenta Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes Filiatrault, Lyne Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Province of British Columbia Henry, Bonnie WorkSafeBC,  BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: Should this be back-to-school wear? | The Tyee

URL: https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/05/Masks-As-Back-To-School-Wear/

Description: The advocacy group Protect our Province BC is warning that actions need to be taken now to protect kids when they head back to school, pointing to rising COVID caseloads in the southern hemisphere, which is experiencing its cold and flu season, as a warning of what’s to come.

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Subject:   Protect Our Province BC Zeidler, Karina World Health Organization,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Kuo, Susan Ferreira, Jaclyn,  Ventilation ,  Long COVID Province of British Columbia Vaccinations Influenza Respiratory Syncytial Virus Tylenol Amoxicillin Clarithromycin

Title: Orthodoxy, illusio, and playing the scientific game: a Bourdieusian analysis of infection control science in the COVID-19 pandemic | Wellcome Open Research

URL: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/6-126/v1/

Description: Scientific and policy bodies’ failure to acknowledge and act on the evidence base for airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a timely way is both a mystery and a scandal. In this study, we applied theories from Bourdieu to address the question, “How was a partial and partisan scientific account of SARS-CoV-2 transmission constructed and maintained, leading to widespread imposition of infection control policies which de-emphasised airborne transmission?”.

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Subject:   World Health Organization Royal College of Nursing,  Ventilation ,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Henry, Bonnie Fédération Interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec Quebec National Institute of Public Health Government of Japan

Title: COVID-19 Omicron variant risk, PCRA model and access to N95 respirators | BC Nurses' Union

URL: https://www.bcnu.org/News-Events/Documents/12.29.2021_Letter_MoH_Omicron;%20aerosolized%20transmission;%20PPE_FINAL.pdf

Description: On behalf of the thousands of nurses our union represents, I am deeply concerned that personal protection levels for nurses and other health care workers may be insufficient leading to them being routinely exposed to significant health risks which the current PPE Allocation Framework within British Columbia does not address.

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Subject:   BC Nurses' Union Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Dix, Adrian,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Henry, Bonnie Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health,  Ventilation

Title: Emails show Dr. Bonnie Henry knew of concerns over BC’s COVID-19 data and school exposures while publicly downplaying them | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/henry-stanwick-covid-school-exposures-emails/

Description: Internal emails show BC public health leaders, including provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, had concerns about the quality of COVID-19 transmission data collected in schools—and that those concerns persisted in private, months after officials had started making claims to the media and the public on a regular basis that the risk of transmission in schools was very low.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie Capital Daily Burnaby Beacon Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Gustafson, Réka Daly, Patricia Brodkin, Elizabeth Galanis, Eleni Docking, Christine Interior Health Northern Health Vancouver Coastal Health Fraser Health Howe, Carolyn Greater Victoria School District Island Health Stanwick, Richard Hoyano, Dee British Columbia Teachers' Federation Greater Victoria Teachers' Association,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Mooring, Teri Waldron, Winona,  Ventilation

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: Vancouver Island flights added to the province's COVID-19 exposure list | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/island-flights-were-added-to-the-provinces-covid-19-exposure-list-907888/

Description: The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) has added multiple recent Island flights to its coronavirus exposure list.

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Air Canada WestJet Fisman, David,  Ventilation

Title: Nanaimo-Ladysmith schools re-open with better air filtration, optional masks | Ladysmith Chemainus Chronicle

URL: https://www.ladysmithchronicle.com/news/nanaimo-ladysmith-schools-re-open-with-better-air-filtration-optional-masks/

Description: As schools in B.C. enter their third year dealing with COVID-19, Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools will continue to take the guidance of provincial health officials.

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Subject:   Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools Burgos, Dale Henry, Bonnie,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Ventilation ,  Ladysmith Intermediate School Virtanen, Jeff Allison, Sandra Inscho, Jeremy Island Health Vancouver Island COVID-19 Rapid Response Team Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education

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: BC advocacy groups, including Safe Schools Coalition BC, demand stronger COVID-19 safety for schools | Safe Schools Coalition BC

URL: https://www.safeschoolscoalitionbc.com/2022/08/29/bc-advocacy-groups-including-safe-schools-coalition-bc-demand-stronger-covid-19-safetyfor-schools/

Description: Safe Schools Coalition BC is joining up with Protect Our Province BC, BC School Covid Tracker, Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition and other allies to demand stronger COVID-19 safety protocols in BC schools.

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Subject:   Safe Schools Coalition BC Protect Our Province BC BC School Covid Tracker Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition Dix, Adrian Whiteside, Jennifer,  Ventilation ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Province of British Columbia Government of Canada Vaccinations Long COVID

Title: Communicable disease plan | August 2021 | Saanich School District

URL: https://www.sd63.bc.ca/sites/default/files/Saanich%20Schools%20Communicable%20Disease%20Plan.pdf

Description: These guidelines are intended to support K-12 education employees, students, parents, caregivers, administrators, and the school community members.

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Subject:   Saanich School District Vaccinations Variants of Concern Alpha Variant Beta Variant Delta Variant,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Vancouver Coastal Health Fraser Health Vancouver School Board,  Ventilation

Title: Provincial COVID-19 communicable disease guidelines for K-12 settings | Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools

URL: https://www.sd68.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/Provincial-COVID-19-Communicable-Disease-Guidelines-for-K-12-Settings.pdf

Description: This document was developed by the Ministry of Education and Child Care in collaboration with the BC Centre for Disease Control, Indigenous rightsholders and education partners – including teachers, parents, and school leaders. It outlines guidance for K‐12 settings for use by boards of education, independent school authorities and schools in communicable disease prevention planning.

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Subject:   Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education and Child Care,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Vaccinations,  Ventilation

Title: Immunosupremacy and necrosecurity drive public discourse over COVID-19 | Georgia Straight

URL: https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/news/immunosupremacy-and-necrosecurity-drive-public-discourse-over-covid-19/

Description: In British Columbia, thanks to COVID-19 and a poisoned illicit-drug supply, there continues to be "mass death among less grievable subjects."

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Subject:   Lincoln, Martha Coroners Service of British Columbia British Columbia Toxic Drugs Crisis Thrasher, Steven Journalism Clarke, John Canadian Security Intelligence Service Royal Canadian Mounted Police,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Henry, Bonnie Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Daly, Patricia Dix, Adrian Furstenau, Sonia World Health Organization,  Ventilation

Title: Addendum: Provincial COVID-19 communicable disease guidelines for K-12 settings | December 29, 2021 | Ministry of Education | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/administration/kindergarten-to-grade-12/safe-caring-orderly/k-12-covid-19-health-safety-guidelines-addendum.pdf

Description: This document is an addendum to the Provincial COVID-19 Communicable Disease Guidelines for K-12 Settings. It outlines focused actions and additional prevention measures B.C. public and independent K12 schools must implement in response to the recent rise of cases of COVID-19 due to the emergence of the more transmissible Omicron variant.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education Province of British Columbia Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Ventilation

Title: Provincial communicable disease guidelines for K-12 school settings | August 25, 2022 | Ministry of Education | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/administration/kindergarten-to-grade-12/safe-caring-orderly/k-12-covid-19-health-safety-guidelines.pdf

Description: The guidance in this document supports reducing the risk of transmission of communicable diseases, including COVID-19 and will be modified as needed. BCCDC is the primary source of information about COVID-19 in BC.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education Province of British Columbia,  BC Centre for Disease Control ,  Ventilation ,  Vaccinations

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