03-18-2021, 02:48 PM
Other vaccination location options are quietly ramping up. Our doctors office is preparing to be a vaccination clinic. Pharmacies will also be online soon as well.
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03-18-2021, 06:00 PM
03-18-2021, 06:52 PM
(03-18-2021, 06:00 PM)plam Wrote:(03-18-2021, 02:48 PM)creative Wrote: Other vaccination location options are quietly ramping up. Our doctors office is preparing to be a vaccination clinic. Pharmacies will also be online soon as well. Lots of inoculation practice for the budding pharmacists!  (03-18-2021, 02:48 PM)creative Wrote: Other vaccination location options are quietly ramping up. Our doctors office is preparing to be a vaccination clinic. Pharmacies will also be online soon as well. I was hoping that I could have registered through the Ontario portal for my mother, who is over 80. I (pre)registered her a while back with the ROW site, but still haven't heard anything. The site itself was kind of a hot mess.
03-19-2021, 02:41 PM
FRIDAY 2021-03-19
Waterloo Region reported 23 new cases for today (6.9% of the active cases) and none more for yesterday for a total of 31; 234 new cases for the week (-26), averaging 9.6% of active cases. 309 active cases, -56 in the last seven days. An average of 1,616 tests per day for the past week, with a very-nice-to-see positivity rate of 2.07%, down substantially from last week's 2.46% in spite of a somewhat lower test volume. 1,935 doses of vaccine administered yesterday, with a seven-day average of 1,476. At this pace, the dose count will reach 70% of the regional population on 2021-11-29 (-13 days). Ontario reported 1,745 new cases today with a seven-day average of 1,480 (+53). 1,296 recoveries and 10 deaths translated to an increase of 439 active cases and a new total of 13,253. +1,741 active cases for the week and 85 deaths (12 per day). 56,134 tests for a positivity rate of 3.11%. The positivity rate is averaging 3.22% for the past seven days, compared to 2.67% for the preceding seven. 309 patients in ICU (+5 today, +27 for the week) and a total hospital bed count of 759 (+83 for the week). 61,146 doses of vaccine administered, with a seven-day average of 51,098. At this pace, the dose count will reach 70% of the provincial population on 2021-09-03 (-14 days).
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03-19-2021, 09:51 PM
Scientists Say They Found Cause of Rare Blood Clotting Linked to AstraZeneca Vaccine
and they know how to treat it.
03-19-2021, 10:59 PM
(03-19-2021, 09:51 PM)Acitta Wrote: Scientists Say They Found Cause of Rare Blood Clotting Linked to AstraZeneca Vaccine Which is great! But if you were at risk for clotting you were also probably at high risk for bad effects from COVID. Anyway it's strictly better to have a treatment for it as well.
03-19-2021, 11:01 PM
(03-19-2021, 09:51 PM)Acitta Wrote: Scientists Say They Found Cause of Rare Blood Clotting Linked to AstraZeneca Vaccine Here is one readable without the WSJ paywall. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandl...1457a041f1
03-20-2021, 01:44 PM
(03-18-2021, 11:41 AM)ac3r Wrote: I'm happy to see the cases dropping in our region. Unfortunately, the Ontario science table is suggesting yet another 3 week lockdown across the province as things are going up. I don't know how long they expect to keep relying on ineffective "lockdowns" because they barely do anything to limit the spread of the virus at this point and are just shuttering businesses and pushing people further and further into poverty: https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/strict-three-...-1.5351152 It looks like this would be for the Golden Horseshoe, from Toronto to Niagara. Effective? I don't know. But the case counts are going up steadily once again, and vaccine-based herd immunity is not imminent yet.
03-20-2021, 01:48 PM
10-day averages for key regions in Ontario, plus the weekly trend as of 2021-03-20 (posting this every two days).
The upslope is very clear. And the positivity rate is now back above 3%, with the same level of testing, so there is clearly much more virus out there in the wild at the moment.
03-20-2021, 02:02 PM
SATURDAY 2021-03-20
Waterloo Region reported 17 new cases for today (5.5% of the active cases) and three more for yesterday for a total of 26; 216 new cases for the week (-18), averaging 9.1% of active cases. 288 active cases -- below 300 for the first time since November -- and -78 in the last seven days. Next testing report on Tuesday. Next vaccination report on Monday. Ontario reported 1,829 new cases today with a seven-day average of 1,532 (+43). 1,261 recoveries and 11 deaths translated to an increase of 557 active cases and a new total of 13,810. +1,992 active cases for the week and 85 deaths (12 per day). 52,083 tests for a positivity rate of 3.51%. The positivity rate is averaging 3.36% for the past seven days, compared to 2.79% for the preceding seven. 302 patients in ICU (-7 today, +27 for the week) and a total hospital bed count of 765 (+76 for the week). 60,283 doses of vaccine administered, with a seven-day average of 52,055. At this pace, the dose count will reach 70% of the provincial population on 2021-08-31 (-3 days).
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03-20-2021, 03:26 PM
Does anyone know how contact tracing is going in Ontario? The most recent news I could find was an article in the Post from November saying only 40% of cases were successfully traced.
03-20-2021, 03:45 PM
Yikes. "B.1.351 and P.1 variants infect and replicate in mice without the need for human ACE2": https://twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/stat...2041294856
03-20-2021, 04:44 PM
The recent case number increases have been primarily in the GTA and Hamilton/Niagara areas. Coincidentally, 90% of the B.1.1.7 (the most widespread variant, the one from the UK) is in those areas. And the N501Y positivity rates are high in those areas: Durham 58%, Toronto 59%, York 52%, Peel 52%, Halton 37%, Hamilton 34%, Niagara 40%, confirming the high incidence of the variants. And these variants are more aggressive, resulting in more new infections.
Waterloo is 26%, London 12% -- and Windsor 3%.
03-21-2021, 04:28 PM
SUNDAY 2021-03-21
Waterloo Region reported 31 new cases for today (10.6% of the active cases) and one more for yesterday for a total of 18; 220 new cases for the week (+4), averaging 9.6% of active cases. 285 active cases, -69 in the last seven days. Next testing report on Tuesday. Next vaccination report on Monday. Ontario reported 1,791 new cases today with a seven-day average of 1,538 (+6). 1,353 recoveries and 18 deaths translated to an increase of 420 active cases and a new total of 14,230. +1,847 active cases for the week and 88 deaths (13 per day). 49,233 tests for a positivity rate of 3.64%. The positivity rate is averaging 3.35% for the past seven days, compared to 2.91% for the preceding seven. 305 patients in ICU (+3 today, +23 for the week). 40,823 doses of vaccine administered, with a seven-day average of 51,907. At this pace, the dose count will reach 70% of the provincial population on 2021-08-31 (-0 days).
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