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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 news: BA.2.86 variant detected in BC, first in Canada | Island Social Trends

URL: https://islandsocialtrends.ca/covid-news-ba-2-86-variant-detected-in-bc-first-in-canada/

Description: BC Health announced this week that the first case of the BA.2.86 variant of the COVID-19 (i.e. SARS-CoV-2) virus was found in a person who had not travelled out of the province.

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Subject:   Variants of Concern Omicron Variant "Kraken" Variant Pirola Variant BC Centre for Disease Control,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Dix, Adrian Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vaccinations,  Wastewater Surveillance ,  Influenza Respiratory Syncytial Virus

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: Island hospitals, schools already facing impact of COVID-19, respiratory virus surge | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/island-hospitals-schools-covid-19-respiratory-virus-surge/

Description: BC is expecting a surge of hospitalizations this fall, but won’t instate any public health measures.

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Subject:   Influenza,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Dix, Adrian Vaccinations Saanich Peninsula Hospital Island Health Unger, Jeff Tan, Amy Breingan, Merle-Ann Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  Wastewater Surveillance ,  BC Centre for Disease Control BC COVID-19 Modelling Group Karlen, Dean

Title: ‘Significantly over capacity’: Island hospitals overwhelmed amid silence and data gaps | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/vancouver-island-hospitals-over-capacity/

Description: Respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses are filling hospital beds, while surgeries are being postponed to make room.

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Subject:   Island Health Dix, Adrian,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Influenza Respiratory Syncytial Virus Victoria General Hospital Royal Jubilee Hospital Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Otto, Sarah Bourdon, Sienna,  Wastewater Surveillance ,  Saanich Peninsula Hospital Lush, Jennifer Variants of Concern "Kraken" Variant Long COVID Omicron Variant

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: Wastewater COVID-19 surveillance expands to Vancouver Island, Interior | Times Colonist

URL: https://www.timescolonist.com/coronavirus-covid-19-local-news/wastewater-covid-19-surveillance-expands-to-vancouver-island-interior-6414693/

Description: The B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s wastewater testing program was previously limited to five Lower Mainland water treatment plants, but will now include Victoria, Nanaimo, the Comox Valley, Kelowna, Kamloops and Penticton.

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Subject:   Wastewater Surveillance ,  BC Centre for Disease Control,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Influenza Prystajecky, Natalie Island Health Interior Health

Title: COVID-19 update for April 5, 2022 | YouTube | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-gDs1YEBaY

Description: Join Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC's provincial health officer, for an update on COVID-19.

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Subject:   Dix, Adrian,  Henry, Bonnie ,  Province of British Columbia,  Wastewater Surveillance ,  BC Vaccine Card Rapid Antigen Tests Vaccinations

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