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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 surge in BC’s North overwhelms hospitals | The Tyee

URL: https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/22/COVID-Surge-BC-North-Overwhelms-Hospitals/

Description: The province is preparing to fly intensive care patients from northern B.C. to other parts of the province as COVID-19 cases surge in the Northern Health authority, filling hospitals and putting strain on local health services.

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Subject:   Northern Health ,  Dix, Adrian University Hospital of Northern British Columbia Fort St. John Hospital Bulkley Valley District Hospital Mills Memorial Hospital Jakubec, Darren Collins, Eryn Interior Health Vaccinations,  Henry, Bonnie

Title: [Update from Adrian Dix regarding patients transferred from Northern BC]

URL: https://twitter.com/cath_garrett/status/1448775861138644992/

Description: Catherine Garrett on Twitter: "New - Health Minister Adrian Dix says 58 patients have been transferred from the north to hospitals in Island Health or Metro Vancouver. 55 of which were from the two Peace River local health areas. #bcpoli #covid19bc / Dix says 45 of the 58 have covid, and need critical care. All but one unvaccinated. #bcpoli #covid19bc / Dix says those transferred without covid can't get a bed because there's no room. There are 40 base beds for the entire region and 23 surge beds that were added. #bcpoli #covid19bc / Dix - "We have thrown in everything in and the kitchen sink and the kitchen sink went in a week ago, we are doing everything we can to support the north." #bcpoli #covid19bc / #Breaking - A person in their 20s has died in Northern Health, says Doctor Bonnie Henry. #bcpoli #covid19bc"

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Subject:   Dix, Adrian,  Northern Health ,  Island Health Vancouver Coastal Health,  Henry, Bonnie

Title: Capacity crisis in B.C.'s north | CBC News

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1448104450871087106/

Description: CBC British Columbia on Twitter: "B.C. health officials say over a dozen hospital patients from northern B.C. spent their Thanksgiving weekend being flown to other regions for care due to a lack of space in their region. As @IsabelleRaghem reports, new measures could be coming as a result."

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Subject:   Northern Health ,  Forrest, David Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Dix, Adrian Mansour, Firas,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Vaccinations

Title: "Circuit-breaker coming in Northern Health"

URL: https://twitter.com/moirawyton/status/1448776142454886400/

Description: Moira Wyton on Twitter: "#New: Circuit-breaker coming in Northern Health, Health Minister @adriandix says. 58 people in need of critical care, most unvaxxed COVID-19 patients, have been flown to hospitals on Vancouver Island and in Metro Vancouver. 'An enormous challenge,' Dix says #bcpoli #COVID19BC / A young person in their twenties in Norther Health has died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, PHO Dr. Bonnie Henry says. They were unvaccinated #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Northern Health ,  Dix, Adrian,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Island Health Vancouver Coastal Health

Title: "I want to provide a thread on changes made by Dr. Henry and Minister Dix."

URL: https://twitter.com/realreporter/status/1440457289148764170/

Description: Salim Jiwa on Twitter: "#bcpoli We've been asking for changes in how BC is dealing with the Delta wave. Setting aside our differences with government I want to provide a thread on changes made by Dr. Henry and Minister Dix. 1/ / Contact tracing teams that have been depleted are being boosted by approximately 300 people. Additional CTs added to all regions but highest share goes to swamped 56 CTs on Island. 113 to be added there. The new additions take staffing to peak infection levels in Spring. 2/ / DBH initially said letters to parents from school exposures will not go out because they were causing anxiety. We pointed out rumours were causing more anxiety. Notifications start again this week. 3/ / 790 surgeries cancelled due to swamped hospitals. Diversion of nurses to take care of covid patients. The stretch is worse in Northern where north-east area has very low vaxx rate. 15 spaces created on Island and Vancouver to transfer out Northern patients. 4/ / Other points are vaccines and pregnancy. Pregnant women in ICU. Preterm babies and often stillborn. DBH emphasized need for vaxx for pregnant women. Safety of vaxx is proven. Please get it done. 5/ / Younger children are likely to get vaccinated as soon as data is submitted by manufacturers to Health Canada. That's likely to happen by end of October. I think it'd be helpful to mandate masks at least until these kids are vaxxed and even after. 6/"

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie ,  Dix, Adrian,  Northern Health ,  Vancouver Coastal Health Island Health Vaccinations Delta Variant Variants of Concern Health Canada

Title: B.C. health care workers add their names to list calling on closure of work camps during pandemic | APTN News

URL: https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/b-c-health-care-workers-add-their-names-to-list-calling-on-closure-of-work-camps-during-pandemic/

Description: An open letter written by Wet’suwet’en Ts’ako ze’ (female chiefs) is being backed by 400 health care workers in B.C. calling on the province to close work camps during the pandemic.

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Subject:   Wet'suwet'en First Nation Bagha, Bilal,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Coastal GasLink LNG Canada Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Phillip, Stewart Tom, Don,  Northern Health ,  Seven Mile Lodge Little Rock Lake Lodge Wickham, Molly | Sley'do National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Wilson, Judy | Kukpi7

Title: Updated: Vancouver Island vaccination tracker | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/covid-19-vaccination-tracker/

Description: The latest information on COVID-19 vaccination plans and progress on Vancouver Island.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Island Health AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD Vaccine,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Dix, Adrian Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Fraser Health,  Northern Health ,  Vancouver Coastal Health Ballem, Penny Discovery Harbour Seniors Community Park Place Seniors Living BC Vaccine Card Delta Variant Variants of Concern

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: 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

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