Author Archives: Gregory Neher

Many businesses have been hit very hard by COVID-19, but one that stands out from the rest is the Vancouver Aquarium. This non-profit organization and sea life hospital has been a cornerstone of Vancouver tourism for long since before I was born. Unfortunately, even with cutbacks, it is bleeding money fast, and while it’s closedContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 43”

There have been a lot of people talking about Sweden lately, and several articles have popped up about how they’re doing great even though they are taking very few actions to stem COVID-19 infections. Unfortunately most of the time these articles are talking about benefits to convenience or expected benefits to their economy, and notContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 41”

There has been a lot of talk about serological tests lately, which is a fancy way for describing testing people’s blood for COVID-19 antibodies, to see if they previously had the virus, and may now be immune to it. Along with the discussions have come the idea of “immunity passports”. The idea behind immunity passportsContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 40”

Today I found out about some great news from the Northwest Territories! Their only known remaining cases of COVID-19 have recovered, and they are now presumed to be COVID-19 free! This would be the second part of Canada to be labelled free of COVID-19, as Nunavut has yet to record a single positive COVID-19 test.Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 39”

Today BC saw the largest single day report of new infections since March 28th, and the 6th highest single day report since the start of the pandemic. 71 new cases were reported, with many of them being associated with the poultry plant outbreak I reported on yesterday. Minister Adrian Dix and Dr. Bonnie Henry bothContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 38”

There have now been 28 infections associated with an outbreak at United Poultry in East Vancouver. Not all of these cases are in today’s report of 25 new infections, as the first confirmed positive test was on Sunday, and additional tests came back on Monday as well. Public Health has also stated that there isContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 37”

I’ve started a new weekly chart which I’ll be sharing on Mondays. It graphs weekly new infection totals, gathered from Tuesday to Monday. Using 7 day totals will help weed out single spikes of high or low cases, and help us see overall trends in the numbers. Each bar represents 1 week, starting with theContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 36”

The Minister of Public Safety Mike Farnworth announced today that people caught price gouging reselling medical supplies could face fines of $2000. A situation that has become all too common not just in BC, but all over Canada as well. Price gougers have been much more commonly selling products locally with portable tables or offContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 35”

It’s time for my weekly BC New Infections chart! As you can see our new infection numbers are continuing to decline, which is great news! It will take at least another 2 weeks before we’ll find out if the Easter long weekend will cause any ripples in our numbers, but hopefully the trend will continue.Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 34”

Today there was an update on the state of BC’s preparedness for fighting COVID-19, and how we’ve been doing so far. I’m going to share some of the details here. As you can see, BC’s daily new cases have been steadily dropping since late March. Deaths have been relatively low, but unfortunately also quite steadyContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 33”