Last Friday our readers told us they would like to see us debunk more conspiracy theories. The above post showed up on Facebook last night, and we thought it was an excellent opportunity to follow up on your request! Conspiracy theories like these are extremely dangerous as they undermine public health efforts and ultimately couldContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 222”
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COVID-19 Diary – Day 221
Weekly Charts With the start of a new week comes the weekly charts update. Over the weekend BC broke the record for the highest number of new cases in a single day, with 172 new cases reported on Saturday. Unfortunately, that record didn’t hold very long as it was broken almost immediately when 174 newContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 221”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 218
Fighting COVID-19 With a Calm Immune System COVID-19 can cause a wide range of symptoms in people, which in turn can cause a number of serious and even life-threatening conditions. One of these conditions is called a cytokine storm, which is when a person’s own immune system begins to attack healthy cells and tissue insteadContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 218”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 217
Symptoms Remain After 3 Months Since at least the first wave of the pandemic, the people of BC (and further) have been wondering about what possible long term effects COVID-19 could have on people. While the full extent of the virus’s effects on us may still not be known, a recent study conducted at UBCContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 217”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 216
COVID-19 Antibody Spike in Tokyo A pre-print study on the seroprevalence of COVID-19 antibodies in Tokyo is turning more than a few heads since its late September release. The study followed 615 outwardly healthy volunteers across 11 locations, all employed by the same company, 350 of whom submitted to 2 tests each with about aContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 216”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 215
Weekly Chart Update Yesterday was a holiday, so ‘weekly chart day’ was pushed to today! As you can see from the above chart, our weekly totals continue to climb. In fact, this week’s total is the highest weekly total since the beginning of the pandemic. Not just that, but Saturday, October 10th’s new infection numberContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 215”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 211
COVID-19 Immunity Passports The idea of COVID-19 immunity passports has been brought up many times over the course of the pandemic. With some government agencies, and several businesses requesting them, and other government agencies and several experts arguing against them. Back in May of this year the company ‘MTÜ Back To Work’, located in Estonia,Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 211”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 209
First Antigen Test Approved for Canada Canada appears to be quickly adopting rapid testing options for COVID-19, not long ago a rapid PCR test was approved, and now a rapid antigen test has been approved as well. Both tests are supplied by Abbott in the USA. The Panbio antigen test uses a nasal swab, muchContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 209”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 208
One of our regular readers requested an update on what we’ve learned about long term immunity to COVID-19 so far. Here is some of the latest data we could find. COVID-19 Long Term Immunity: No? Since almost the first days of COVID-19, people have been asking how long a person remains immune after they’ve beenContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 208”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 207
Weekly Chart Update Every Monday we begin the week with a new chart showing how our total weekly numbers compare to the previous total week numbers. As you can see from the above chart, 831 new infections were reported over the last 7 days. This is an 18.7% increase over last week’s total of 700.Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 207”
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