The 369 people now hospitalized with COVID-19 in BC have increased by 35% over last week
COVID-19 hospitalizations across BC rose 35 percent to 369 today, from 273 last Thursday.
This is the highest count since June 2, when there were 421 such patients in BC hospitals. Of those now hospitalized with the disease, 36 are in intensive care units, four more than a week ago.
This is the first increase in the number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 in the province since May 12.
Deaths from COVID-19 continue to accumulate, with 24 people dying while infected with COVID-19 during the week through July 2. This represents an increase from 17 such deaths the previous week, but less than half of the 50 deaths. three weeks ago. The total deaths included all people who tested positive for COVID-19 within 30 days and then died. This calculation may include people who tested positive and then died in car accidents.
The BC government’s process is to include these deaths initially and then have its Vital Statistics Agency determine which deaths were unrelated to COVID-19 and eliminate them from the total.
As has been the case in every weekly update since the government went on to provide data only once a week, the number of deaths from COVID-19 allegedly has increased more than the number of new deaths from COVID-19. This is the opposite of what the provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, said would happen when she introduced the new system in early April.
The number of deaths from COVID-19 in BC increased by 41 the week ending July 2, despite the 24 new deaths that have been reported. When Glacier Media this spring asked the BC Ministry of Health about the current disparities in the weekly total deaths from COVID-19 and the total number of deaths, a The officer said the reason was that the total deaths were “provisional. “
Now, the province estimates that 3,788 people have died from COVID-19 in BC since the first death was announced on March 9, 2020: an 80-year-old man living in the North Lynn Valley Care Center Vancouver.
The British Columbia Center for Disease Control detected 765 new COVID-19 infections in the week ending July 2. This is an increase of 145 compared to a week earlier, and increases the number of known COVID-19 infections in BC to 375,357 since the first. The case was detected in late January 2020.
Data on new infections, however, have long since been widely rejected, and even Henry earlier this year called the information “inaccurate.” This is because in December he started telling people that they were vaccinated and had mild symptoms that they should not be tested and that they should simply be isolated. He said then that this was to increase the test capacity for those with more severe symptoms and those who are more vulnerable.
It is now recommended to test only in cases where knowing the test result could change treatment recommendations.
The 12,104 COVID-19 tests performed in BC in the week ending July 2 decreased by 60 compared to a week earlier. Considering there were 765 new cases, the positive test rate during the week was 6.32%, the highest positive test rate for a week since May 19th.