The COVID-19 pandemic

[jeffster]

SDM has AZ available at Conestoga Mall and Erb St.

Got our second shots (mix'n'match: AZ followed by Moderna) this morning, walk-in at Queens Pharmacy. A bit of a long wait but then no waiting for an appointment.

Congrats. How did you find out about this walk-in?

[bgb_ca]

Just check the pharmacy booking sites until an appointment pops up. Mainly sobeys, walmart and costco (no membership required).

if we got the first shot from the region can we get a second shot from a pharmacy or will they tell us to wait on the Region?

I'm currently waiting to hear back about getting my second shot rescheduled from the region and I have little faith they will reschedule in a timely manner. Meanwhile I know people that got their first and second doses from the pharmacy stream already.

Just got an email from the region to reschedule. I'm now moved up to Canada day.

I also saw that there is now a clinic listed in uptown waterloo but there were no appointments. https://www.kitchenertoday.com/coronavir...nd-3889132

[tomh009]

Got our second shots (mix'n'match: AZ followed by Moderna) this morning, walk-in at Queens Pharmacy. A bit of a long wait but then no waiting for an appointment.

Congrats. How did you find out about this walk-in?

Someone posted about it on Twitter. They do have big "walk-in vaccine" signs outside the pharmacy, too.

[tomh009]

SATURDAY 2021-06-19

Waterloo Region reported 57 new cases for today (10.4% of the active cases) and three more for yesterday for 58; 432 new cases for the week (-9 from yesterday, +61 from last week), averaging 12.4% of active cases. 546 active cases, +103 in the last seven days.

Next testing report on Friday.

Next vaccination report on Monday.

Ontario reported 355 new cases today with a seven-day average of 390 (-21). 581 recoveries and 13 deaths translated to a decrease of 239 active cases and a new total of 3,871. -1,970 active cases for the week -- the drops are smaller now, but this is still a better than a 33% drop in one week -- and 57 deaths (seven per day).  25,368 tests with a positivity rate of 1.40%. The positivity rate is averaging 1.84% for the past seven days, compared to 2.34% for the preceding seven.

New case variants reported today (these are substantially delayed so they do not match the new case numbers):

• Alpha (B.1.1.7): 286
  
• Beta (B.1.351): 2
  
• Delta (B.1.617): 29
  
• Gamma (P.1): 74
  

335 patients in ICU (-17 today, -87 for the week) and a total hospital population of 336 (-111 for the week). I do suspect that the ICU and overall hospital numbers are not fully in sync ...

213,236 doses of vaccine administered, with a seven-day average at 191,807 (previous week was 169,753). 65.49% of total provincial population vaccinated (+0.24% from yesterday, +1.94% from 7 days ago), 18.51% fully vaccinated (+1.21% from yesterday, +7.18% from 7 days ago).

• 54 cases in Waterloo: 8.7 per 100K (based on provincial reporting)
  
• 6 cases in Brant: 4.4 per 100K
  
• 23 cases in Hamilton: 4.0 per 100K
  
• 14 cases in Windsor-Essex: 3.6 per 100K
  
• 9 cases in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 3.3 per 100K
  
• 45 cases in Peel: 3.3 per 100K
  
• 3 cases in Huron Perth: 3.1 per 100K
  
• 16 cases in Halton: 2.9 per 100K
  
• 16 cases in Durham: 2.5 per 100K
  
• 2 cases in Northwestern: 2.3 per 100K
  
• 9 cases in Niagara: 2.0 per 100K
  
• 4 cases in Southwestern Ontario: 2.0 per 100K
  
• 58 cases in Toronto: 2.0 per 100K
  

[tomh009]

10-day averages for key regions in Ontario, plus the weekly trend as of 2021-06-19 (posting this every Saturday).

Region	Cases today	per 100K	10-day average	per 100K	Weekly trend
Waterloo	54	8.7	66	10.6	-5%
Peel	45	3.3	69	5.0	-58%
Brant	6	4.4	5	3.9	-55%
Huron Perth	3	3.1	4	3.8	-22%
Hamilton	23	4.0	21	3.7	-49%
Niagara	9	2.0	15	3.3	-53%
Durham	16	2.5	20	3.0	-48%
Middlesex-London	5	1.2	12	2.9	-38%
Toronto	58	2.0	81	2.8	-52%
Halton	16	2.9	14	2.6	-58%
Thunder Bay	1	.7	3	2.2	-93%
Ottawa	16	1.6	21	2.1	-21%
Windsor-Essex	14	3.6	8	2.1	-19%
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph	9	3.3	6	2.0	+17%
Simcoe-Muskoka	5	.9	11	2.0	-64%
York	18	1.6	22	2.0	-36%
Ontario total					-41%

Waterloo Region is still high, but the trend is now negative, even if only slightly so.

[clasher]

Someone posted about it on Twitter. They do have big "walk-in vaccine" signs outside the pharmacy, too.

Yeah that big sign is hard to miss, I'm gonna pop in on Monday and see if I get one... been 29 days since my first shot.

[tomh009]

Someone posted about it on Twitter. They do have big "walk-in vaccine" signs outside the pharmacy, too.

Yeah that big sign is hard to miss, I'm gonna pop in on Monday and see if I get one... been 29 days since my first shot.

Go early, to make sure they don't run out before you get yours.

[panamaniac]

Got my second jab two days ago (Pfizer/Pfizer). Had to go all the way to Hawkesbury, but glad to get it done. No side effects of any sort, not even a sore arm.

[ac3r]

Lucky! My arm was sore for both of my shots. I had no other side effects or even felt the needle go in, but always woke up with a bit of a sore arm the next morning.

[jeffster]

Current 7-day Covid-19 per 100k

• Region of Waterloo Public Health and Emergency Services 71.7
• North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit 33.1
• Peel Public Health 23.3
• Grey Bruce Health Unit 21.2
• City of Hamilton Public Health Services 18.6
• Niagara Region Public Health 17.8
• Brant County Health Unit 16.1
• Durham Region Health Department 15.9
• Huron Perth Public Health 15.7
• Middlesex-London Health Unit 15.0

• TOTAL ONTARIO 16.9

The region of Waterloo is starting to drop — hopefully this keeps up as we all want to be able to go to stage 2. Under the old system, Waterloo Region would be in the “Red” zone (Porcupine is still grey, but dropping finally as well). We’re still more than 4x the provincial average, tho.

Regarding the Delta variant: Ontario sequenced (Genomics Network) 1,493 VOC PCR tests for the 4 weeks of May 2 to 29th. Alpha variant was 76.4%, followed by Delta (11%) and Gamma (4.7%). Interesting note that the Delta variant stabilized the last two week in May, May 16-22 it was 16.6%, and 23-29 it was 16.2%.

That doesn’t mean that the majority of Delta cases weren’t from Waterloo Region, but it is a sign that the Delta variant might be less prominent than some in the PHU believe. I guess we’ll need to wait a couple more weeks for updated results.

[tomh009]

Lucky! My arm was sore for both of my shots. I had no other side effects or even felt the needle go in, but always woke up with a bit of a sore arm the next morning.

Ha! I feel like I got run over by a dump truck today. I have no regrets about getting the shot, but definitely not fun this time.

[tomh009]

SUNDAY 2021-06-20

Waterloo Region reported 50 new cases for today (9.1% of the active cases) and three more for yesterday for 60; 401 new cases for the week (-31 from yesterday, -23 from last week), averaging 11.1% of active cases. 541 active cases, +62 in the last seven days.

Next testing report on Friday.

Next vaccination report on Monday.

Ontario reported 318 new cases today with a seven-day average of 359 (-31). 504 recoveries and 12 deaths translated to a decrease of 198 active cases and a new total of 3,673. -1,928 active cases for the week and 62 deaths (nine per day).  21,063 tests with a positivity rate of 1.51%. The positivity rate is averaging 1.69% for the past seven days, compared to 2.28% for the preceding seven.

New case variants reported today (these are substantially delayed so they do not match the new case numbers):

• Alpha (B.1.1.7): 127
  
• Beta (B.1.351): 0
  
• Delta (B.1.617): 20
  
• Gamma (P.1): 1
  

333 patients in ICU (-2 today, -93 for the week)

184,251 doses of vaccine administered, with a seven-day average at 191,755 (previous week was 173,499). 65.73% of total provincial population vaccinated (+0.24% from yesterday, +1.80% from 7 days ago), 19.53% fully vaccinated (+1.02% from yesterday, +7.32% from 7 days ago).

• 51 cases in Waterloo: 8.3 per 100K (based on provincial reporting)
  
• 49 cases in Peel: 3.5 per 100K
  
• 20 cases in Hamilton: 3.5 per 100K
  
• 13 cases in Niagara: 2.9 per 100K
  
• 26 cases in Ottawa: 2.6 per 100K
  
• 10 cases in Windsor-Essex: 2.6 per 100K
  
• 16 cases in Durham: 2.5 per 100K
  
• 3 cases in Lambton: 2.3 per 100K
  
• 2 cases in Huron Perth: 2.0 per 100K
  
• 10 cases in Halton: 1.8 per 100K
  
• 45 cases in Toronto: 1.5 per 100K
  
• 3 cases in Southwestern Ontario: 1.5 per 100K
  
• 3 cases in Kingston Frontenac: 1.5 per 100K
  
• 2 cases in Thunder Bay: 1.3 per 100K
  
• 5 cases in Middlesex-London: 1.2 per 100K
  
• 13 cases in York: 1.2 per 100K
  
• 1 cases in Northwestern: 1.1 per 100K
  
• 3 cases in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 1.1 per 100K
  

[jeffster]

First fully immunized person dies in the region, a senior at a LTC Home. It does have me wondering, because from what I understand, the outbreak originated with a care worker that was unvaccinated. How can something like this happen? I would have thought that ensuring all care workers are vaccinated would be a priority -- that, or this worker didn't want the vaccine, which begs the other question: should these people be working around the vulnerable? I would think not.

[panamaniac]

First fully immunized person dies in the region, a senior at a LTC Home. It does have me wondering, because from what I understand, the outbreak originated with a care worker that was unvaccinated. How can something like this happen? I would have thought that ensuring all care workers are vaccinated would be a priority -- that, or this worker didn't want the vaccine, which begs the other question: should these people be working around the vulnerable? I would think not.

I would think not too.  Unfortunately, the alternative is even worse.

[plam]

First fully immunized person dies in the region, a senior at a LTC Home. It does have me wondering, because from what I understand, the outbreak originated with a care worker that was unvaccinated. How can something like this happen? I would have thought that ensuring all care workers are vaccinated would be a priority -- that, or this worker didn't want the vaccine, which begs the other question: should these people be working around the vulnerable? I would think not.

I guess that will happen when the vaccines are less than 100% effective (but they're damn close). I would want to check that the person is 2 weeks out from the last dose of the vaccine; I'm not sure that message is getting out to people.

I wouldn't think that care workers should be allowed to continue working in that role while unvaccinated, but who knows what the rules are.