weekly covid stats report
positivity still high at 11.1% (down from 12.1%)
hosptilatizations up 12 to 179
ICU stable at 6
Deaths up by 8 (last week 10)
AB Acute Care Outbreaks:
so depressing. week after week I report, week after week no policy change.
ongoing outbreaks. Ongoing preventable illness and deaths of vulnerable patients.
And HCWs.
Taking a couple of days off to dino hunt.
See you on the flipside.
Wow, @AHS_media, what's happening in Lamont?
At the Foothills Hospital?
Is this ok?
Why not just do mask mandates in hospitals?
The plan isn't working.
Source: www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/...
two important papers out this week.
Association of institutional masking policies with healthcare-associated SARS-CoV-2 infections in Swiss acute care hospitals during the BA.4/5 wave (CH-SUR study): a retrospective observational study
aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Weekly AB COVID stats report.
Positivity remains stable at 11.5% (last week 11.0, week before 11.9%)
Hospitalizations back up, now 171 (last week 159)
ICU now 10 up from 9 last week.
Deaths up by 10 (last 2 wks: 13).
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This week's AB COVID stats report
Positvity stable at 11% (last week 11.9%)
Hospitalizations down 19 to 159 (last week 178)
ICU up to 9 from 8.
Deaths 13 (last week 13). fin/
Weekly AB COVID stats update.
Calling it, the next wave of COVID has begun .
Multiple weeks of rising everything.
Just in time for summer.
Both Edmonton and Calgary with rising #s.
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This week's acute care outbreaks at AHS in Alberta.
Not sure what to say anymore.
Obviously, they have no interest in stopping preventable hospital-acquired infections.
Someone explain to me why.
source: www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/...
Was thrilled and honoured to participate in a sweat lodge ceremony at #caep2024 doing land-based learning with the incredible @DrMakokis.
Mind opened. Hoping to be a better ally with Indigenous Peoples in medicine, and beyond.
Thanks to @UAlberta_FoMD for hosting.
Impact of interventions to reduce nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in English NHS Trusts: a computational modelling study
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
Alberta COVID stats update.
A worrisome increase by 18!!! in deaths from a week ago. Rising positivity to 9.9% from 7.9%.
unchanged inpatients at 145. I
CU down by one to 3.
I've seen data that suggests the majority of the increase in numbers is in Edmonton zone.
AB Acute Care Outbreak report from yesterday.
Good news:decreasing # of outbreaks.
Bad news: Look at the insane # of people getting sick from Hospital-Acquired Infections at the Grey Nuns and Mis Hospitals in Edmonton.
And no mask mandate in hospitals.
www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/...
Excited to be involved in this new campaign to provide free respirator masks to communities vulnerable to wildfire smoke.
Reach out if your community is interested.
masksforfires.wixsite.com/canada
Tomorrow, Monday at 1900 at Owl's Nest Books.
The Calgary book launch of Breaking Canadians edited by @nilikm.bsky.social with David Keegan and myself, MCed by Raj Bhardwaj.
Please share widely, as we're intentionally not sharing this on the dumpster fire site.
www.owlsnestbooks.com/events
