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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: ‘We may have averted disaster’: Island COVID-19 cases decline but healthcare staff feeling the pressure | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/vancouver-island-covid-19-decline-healthcare-staff/

Description: A month after the first set of restrictions were introduced in BC, daily COVID-19 cases have dropped at a steady pace—but the province’s healthcare system is still struggling to manage the strains of the third wave.

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Subject:   Island Health ,  Variants of Concern WorkSafeBC,  BC COVID-19 Modelling Group ,  Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Vancouver Coastal Health Northern Health Dix, Adrian Doctors of BC Chow, Matthew Royal Canadian Mounted Police Farnworth, Mike BC Ferries Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine Vaccinations

Title: [Reporting on Omicron's impact on Greater Victoria hospitals]

URL: https://twitter.com/brish_ti/status/1474230304206630916/

Description: Brishti Basu on Twitter: "Latest for @CapitalDailyVic : I spoke to two doctors who work in Island Health/#yyj hospitals who say public health has not communicated any plans regarding what will happen when the predicted surge of #omicron cases hits BC hospitals: / Hospitals across the Island are nearly full already & care is already being compromised due to shortages @bcCOVID19group modelling shows even in best case scenario, BC expects 700 hospitalizations and 400 ICU by Jan 8 (For context, today there were 195 active cases in hospital) / “It’s a double whammy because not only are we over-capacity for patients, we’re short-staffed on nurses,” said @AmyTanMD “People are burnt out, people have retired, people have quit. It's actually worse than March 2020 because the system is so burnt out from two years of this. / With more #omicron patients on the way, she and James, an emergency physician at VGH and Jubilee, fear more and more healthcare workers will get infected. Consequences: more nurse/doctor shortages while they isolate + staff inadvertently spreading COVID to other patients. / One simple step they want, which ON and AB have taken: N95 masks for hospital staff to wear when in contact with COVID-positive or suspected COVID-positive patients. To do this, BC public health would have to acknowledge airborne transmission. / Anecdotally, more HCWs have been infected recently than before. But, James says, public health still says transmission doesn't happen at hospitals. The lack of adequate PPE is contributing to heightened risk + HCWs feeling like govt and public health don't have their back. / “We know if the virus is transmitted in the air, it doesn't matter where you are,” James said. “The virus doesn't know whether you're in church or whether you're in a gym or whether you're in a shopping mall, or in a restaurant.” Full story: #COVID19BC"

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Subject:   Island Health ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  BC COVID-19 Modelling Group ,  Tan, Amy Province of British Columbia

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: 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: 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: Omicron is upending Vancouver Island hospitals and schools | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/omicron-is-upending-vancouver-island-hospitals-and-schools/

Description: Health workers say they’re stretched past the breaking point, while teachers feel their concerns are ignored.

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Subject:   Omicron Variant Variants of Concern,  Island Health ,  Royal Jubilee Hospital Victoria General Hospital Stanwick, Richard Henry, Bonnie Gagnon, Marilou Rapid Antigen Tests,  BC COVID-19 Modelling Group ,  Karlen, Dean Whiteside, Jennifer Greater Victoria School District Waldron, Winona Cowichan Valley School District Greater Victoria Teachers' Association

Title: Model fit update with recent BC data | August 6, 2021 | BC COVID-19 Modelling Group

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8M4QLwWQAM8Wuq?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Description: Jens von Bergmann on Twitter: "Interim BC COVID-19 Modelling Group report came out yesterday. All Health Authorities are seeing sustained and strong case growth which is projected to continue in absence of interventions. https://bccovid-19group.ca/post/2021-08-06-interimreport/slides.pdf"

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Subject:   BC COVID-19 Modelling Group ,  Fraser Health Vancouver Coastal Health Interior Health,  Island Health ,  Northern Health Delta Variant Variants of Concern

Title: How safe is BC’s safe restart plan for Vancouver Island? | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/safe-restart-plan-vancouver-island-delta-variant/

Description: Uncertainties, questions, and data gaps continue to plague BC’s provincial restart plan as we inch closer and closer to pre-COVID life.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Island Health ,  Variants of Concern Otto, Sarah Stanwick, Richard Delta Variant BC Centre for Disease Control,  BC COVID-19 Modelling Group ,  Fraser Health Vaccinations Henry, Bonnie Vancouver Coastal Health

Title: Estimating cases in BC | January 9, 2022 | BC COVID-19 Modelling Group

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIy0W5OVgAAEGSL?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Description: bcCOVID19group on Twitter: "Because BC continues to recommend testing for older individuals, we can use trends in people 70+ to correct case counts in those <70. The estimated number of cases that would have been reported today is 12583 if testing limits not been exceeded, 6x more than the 2446 reported."

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Subject:   BC COVID-19 Modelling Group ,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Island Health ,  Interior Health Fraser Health Northern Health

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