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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. 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: BC & Island Health vaccination profile at July 2 | Island Social Trends

URL: https://islandsocialtrends.ca/bc-island-health-vaccination-profile-at-july-2/

Description: Details about vaccine supply and pace of immunizations on Vancouver Island and British Columbia.

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Subject:   Vaccinations,  Island Health ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health ,  Province of British Columbia,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Dix, Adrian Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD Vaccine Horgan, John Trudeau, Justin Eagle Ridge Community Centre Archie Browning Sports Centre

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: Joint statement on province of B.C.'s COVID-19 response, latest updates | June 4, 2020 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020HLTH0031-001020/

Description: Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, have issued the following joint statement regarding updates on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) response in British Columbia.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health ,  Dix, Adrian,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Beresford Warming Centre Vancouver Coastal Health Fraser Health,  Island Health ,  Interior Health Northern Health

Title: Province-wide public health orders: Effective until January 8, 2021 at midnight | Island Health

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

Description: Island Health on Twitter: "Dr. Bonnie Henry has extended COVID-19 public health orders until Jan 8, 2021, midnight. Everything we’ve been doing to slow the spread of the virus we need to 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 doing. Read the full order and more directions: http://ow.ly/vKY150CGgF7 #COVID19IslandHealth Image"

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Subject:   Island Health ,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health ,  Province of British Columbia,  Henry, Bonnie

Title: BC parents look to US pharmacies to find COVID vaccines for under-12 kids | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/bc-parents-vaccines-us-pharmacies/

Description: Children in BC are expected to be able to get vaccinated before the holiday season, but pharmacies in Washington are already vaccinating Canadian kids.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Cote, Elise Tillicum Community School Greater Victoria School District Jim’s Pharmacy Berner, Geoff Washington State Department of Health Health Canada Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Interior Health Northern Health,  Island Health ,  BC Vaccine Card Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health

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: 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: 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: 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: New data shows how fast COVID-19 spread to students, staff at start of school year | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/new-data-shows-how-fast-covid-19-spread-to-students-staff-at-start-of-school-year-917165/

Description: There were 474 students and staff in the Island Health region infected with COVID-19 in the first six weeks of the school year, CHEK News has learned.

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Subject:   Island Health ,  Province of British Columbia,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Mooring, Teri Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools BC Centre for Disease Control British Columbia Teachers' Federation,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health

Title: Petition asks B.C. to show data on COVID exposures at gyms, fitness centres or reopen them | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/petition-asks-b-c-to-show-data-on-covid-exposures-at-gyms-fitness-centres-or-reopen-them-936170/

Description: A petition with nearly 50,000 signatures is demanding the B.C. government not only reopen indoor exercise facilities but show the public just how much transmission occurs in those environments.

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Subject:   Agtarap, Samantha Agtarap, Anthony Engineered Bodies Strength & Conditioning,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health ,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fraser Health Club Phoenix Fitness,  Island Health ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: Petition demands B.C. notify public of COVID-19 exposures, outbreaks at post-secondary institutions | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/petition-demands-b-c-notify-public-of-covid-19-exposures-outbreaks-at-post-secondary-institutions-919589/

Description: The Vancouver Island University Faculty Association has launched a petition demanding the Ministry of Health immediately begin posting COVID-19 exposure, cluster, or outbreak event notifications that have occurred at a post-secondary campus on the regional health authorities' websites.

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Subject:   Vancouver Island University Faculty Association Vancouver Island University Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health ,  University of Victoria Faculty Association University of Victoria Simon Fraser University Faculty Association Simon Fraser University Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association Thompson Rivers University British Columbia General Employees' Union | Local 702 University of Victoria Graduate Students' Society Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC Alemany, Chris University Affairs,  Island Health ,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Region of Waterloo University of Toronto Wilfrid Laurier University University of Alberta University of Manitoba Dalhousie University St. Francis Xavier University

Title: B.C. parents crowdsourcing COVID-19 school exposures in lieu of provincial information | Goldstream News Gazette

URL: https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/b-c-parents-crowdsourcing-covid-19-school-exposures-in-lieu-of-provincial-information/

Description: A site run voluntarily by two B.C. moms has quickly become one of the only sources of information on COVID-19 exposures in schools this year, after the province announced it would only publicize information if it turned into a cluster or outbreak.

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Subject:   BC School Covid Tracker Marliss, Kathy Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health ,  Vaccinations Costa, Elizabete Monterey Middle School Greater Victoria School District,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Island Health

Title: Omicron isn’t impacting Nanaimo school district’s plans for return to classes in January | Nanaimo News Bulletin

URL: https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/omicron-isnt-impacting-nanaimo-school-districts-plans-for-return-to-classes-in-january/

Description: While COVID-19 cases surge with the Omicron variant, Nanaimo Ladysmith school district isn’t currently planning to change its learning model when classes resume in January.

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Subject:   Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health ,  Inscho, Jeremy Nanaimo District Teachers' Association,  Island Health ,  Vaccinations Burgos, Dale,  Henry, Bonnie ,  École Quarterway Elementary School Coal Tyee Elementary School Syuẁén'ct Elementary School Forest Park Elementary School Departure Bay Elementary School Ladysmith Primary School

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