The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

Some news up regarding vaccination status' for the local school boards:

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/new-data-of...-1.5587637

TL/DR:

For WRDSB: 66.5% of 69.7% (staff and trustees) have attested to being fully vaccinated.
For WCDSB: 89.2% of 80.9% (staff and trustees) have attested to being fully vaccinated.

That means for WRDSB that about 53% either: didn't complete survey, didn't disclose, or are only partially vaccinated or not vaccinated at all.

For WCDSB this is almost 28% that: didn't complete survey, didn't disclose, or are only partially vaccinated or not vaccinated at all.

Both school boards had very small numbers for staff with exemptions. 0.01% (1 person) for WRDSB and 0.2% for WCDSB.

I highlighted the bold as it gives us a good idea of how many people could go the exemption route, and it's very small.

That's not quite right. The article provides confusing numbers and I had to read it twice for it to make sense.

For WRDSB: 66.5% of 69.7% (staff and trustees) have attested to being fully vaccinated.
(...)
That means for WRDSB that about 53% either: didn't complete survey, didn't disclose, or are only partially vaccinated or not vaccinated at all.

What WRDSB actually says is that 69.7% of staff and trustees responded. And 95.4% of those who responded (ie 66.5% of the total) said they were vaccinated. So, 66.5% of WRDSB staff are known to be vaccinated. A large proportion of the staff has not yet responded.

• 66.5% fully vaccinated
  
• 0.1% medical exemption
  
• 3.2% not fully vaccinated
  
• 30.3% not yet reported
  

The WCDSB numbers are equally confusingly reported, but I found the original data here:
https://www.wcdsb.ca/vaccination-attestation-summary/

• 80.9% fully vaccinated
  
• 0.2% medical exemption
  
• 8.1% not fully vaccinated
  
• 10.8% not yet reported
  

90.9% of the people who have submitted we fully vaccinated.