Vice President for Scholar Lifetime Jon Dooley is furnishing normal electronic mail update messages to retain pupils and moms and dads educated about the endeavours for a wholesome Spring Semester.
Expensive Learners, College, and Personnel,
Summary of updates in this message
Standing updates
New mask coverage
Spring Split campus basic safety and services
Reporting good exams during Spring Split
Tests sources after Spring Split
Status updates
The university dashboard is up to date on the Balanced Elon site each weekday early morning.
New campus mask plan now in impact
On Monday, March 14, Elon adopted its new indoor mask optional coverage for most campus areas. This adjust is in line with steerage from the CDC and North Carolina well being officers. Elon endorses the legal rights of anyone to make their possess personal choices about sporting masks, even though masks are continue to expected in specified campus health care areas and for those people with COVID-like signs and symptoms. All members of the campus neighborhood should really turn into familiar with the total specifics of the university’s new mask plan.
Absolutely everyone ought to carry on to carry a mask with them on campus and continue to keep in thoughts that each and every particular person has various experiences, household and professional medical situations, and considerations as we navigate this method. We ask the campus group to be respectful and honor requests to have on a mask and assist others on campus to defend on their own. If you are requested to use a mask, the best point to do is guidance the person earning the request. Elon understands and is compassionate to the simple fact that this sickness impacts each individual specific in a different way. Human Assets and Pupil Treatment and Outreach are completely ready to satisfy with associates of the campus group to ascertain how to be practical for the duration of this transition.
Spring Break campus protection and companies
Spring split for undergraduate college students and a lot of graduate courses is this 7 days and Friday, March 18, has been specified a spring crack holiday break for workers. Most campus providers have reduced hrs or availability this week, until courses resume Monday, March 21. Pay a visit to Right now at Elon for in depth data about campus basic safety and solutions during Spring Crack.
Reporting good checks through Spring Crack
Must learners test optimistic for the duration of Spring Split, report favourable exam outcomes from an off-campus tests facility or an authorised around-the-counter/at-home take a look at to College student Care & Outreach by emailing [email protected]. Scholar Treatment & Outreach, Residence Everyday living, and College student Health and fitness Products and services will coordinate get in touch with tracing, care, housing, and overall health precautions.
Tests assets following Spring Split
Students, school, and team are welcome and encouraged to take a look at on returning to campus soon after Spring Crack and throughout the semester.
Additional data
In depth data is normally readily available on the Healthful Elon site, which supplies critical wellbeing and wellness details for learners and staff members, including what to do if you really feel unwell, check positive, or have near speak to with a beneficial situation. The website also gives responses to usually asked queries about lecturers, vaccination, and staff data, as perfectly as solutions to issues associated to the most recent mask optional coverage and other campus protocols. Human Sources is also accessible to supply aid as personnel navigate COVID coverage changes. Remember to contact 336-278-5560 to get to an HR agent or e-mail [email protected].
The following email update will be sent Wednesday, March 23, at 10:45 a.m., unless of course an added message is warranted ahead of then.
Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know on the coronavirus situation in B.C.
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Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know on the coronavirus situation in B.C. for March 9, 2022.
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B.C.’S COVID-19 CASE NUMBERS
Here are the latest figures given on March 9:
• Total number of confirmed cases: 351,415 • New cases: 274 • Total deaths: 2,929 (14 reported in past 24 hours) • Hospitalized cases: 405 • Intensive care: 58 • Total vaccinations: 4,521,087 received first dose (90.7{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of eligible pop. 5+); 4,315,064 second doses (86.6{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}); 2,519,018 third doses (58.2{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of those 12+) • Long-term care and assisted-living homes, and acute care facilities currently affected: 15
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IN-DEPTH: Here are all the B.C. cases of the novel coronavirus in 2021 | in 2020
B.C. GUIDES AND LINKS
• COVID-19: B.C.’s vaccine passport is here and this is how it works
• COVID-19: Afraid of needles? Here’s how to overcome your fear and get vaccinated
• COVID-19: Here’s where to get tested in Metro Vancouver
Fewer than 900 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered over past day
There were 891 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in B.C. over the past day, as the percentage of people aged five and over in the province who have had a first dose remained steady at 90.7 per cent.
In total there were 6,043 doses administered either as first, second or third doses.
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The B.C. Ministry of Health reported 14 deaths in the past 24 hours, with that total now at 2,929. The number of people in hospital either because of COVID-19 or with the disease continues to fall – with 405 cases in hospital on Tuesday, including 58 in intensive care.
On Tuesday there were 5,604 PCR tests performed – about a quarter of B.C.’s testing capacity – with just over seven per cent of those tests coming back positive.
Due to limited testing the government does not know how many active cases there are in the community, instead relying on hospitalization numbers and wastewater data to give guidance on where the pandemic is headed.
Given hospital numbers and wastewater metrics are falling, the pandemic is considered to be improving.
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There are 15 active outbreaks in health-care facilities, two fewer than yesterday.
Ontario to eliminate most mask mandates on March 21
Ontario students won’t have to wear masks when they return to school after March break, the province announced Wednesday.
Most mask requirements will be dropped as of March 21, with remaining mandates for higher risk settings such as long-term care, hospitals and transit, to be dropped on April 27.
Provincial officials said the move — as case counts and other key indicators are improving — are part of learning to live with and manage COVID-19. During a technical briefing, officials acknowledged that COVID-19 is likely to return next fall and winter or even sooner if a new evasive variant emerges.
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“Removing the mask mandate does not mean the risk is gone. COVID transmission is still occurring and masks can protect you and others from becoming infected,” the Dr. Kieran Moore, the province’s chief medical officer of health.
Moore said the province is “now learning to live with and manage COVID for the long term.”
Read full story here.
— Postmedia News
Winnipeg zoo giving COVID-19 vaccine to 55 animals including tigers, snow leopards
The Winnipeg zoo is giving a COVID-19 vaccine to some of its animals that are considered to be at greater risk of contracting the virus.
The Assiniboine Park Zoo says it has begun using a vaccine made uniquely for animals to protect them against the novel coronavirus.
Chris Enright, the zoo’s director of veterinary services, says vaccination is a common and safe way of protecting animals in human care from a variety of illnesses.
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The zoo says certain animals are more vulnerable to COVID-19, including primates, big cats such as tigers and snow leopards and those that have closer interaction with human caregivers.
Fifty-five animals are expected to get the shots.
The vaccine is to be administered to the animals in two doses about three weeks apart. It is made by Zoetis, an American company which specializes in animal health. The vaccine’s use is authorized on a case-by-case basis by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the zoo said.
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— The Canadian Press
One COVID-19 death reported Tuesday
One COVID-19 death was reported Tuesday, bringing that total to 2,915 since the pandemic began over two years ago. The average age of people who have died from the disease in B.C. is 82 – that is also the province’s life expectancy.
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The B.C. Ministry of Health reported 254 new cases over the past day and performed 4,038 laboratory tests on Monday – with a test positive rate of 7.8 per cent.
This is less than a quarter of the the province’s testing capacity. The government is no longer tracking active cases of the disease and is relying on people to use free rapid tests rather than PCR tests – that are more accurate and more expensive.
The number of people in hospital either because of COVID-19 or with the disease continues to fall. There are now 419 people in hospital including 63 in intensive care.
Order in place forcing B.C. health care professionals to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status
The provincial health officer has posted a new provincial health order ordering health care professionals to report their vaccination status to their colleges and for that information to be provided to the Health Ministry by month’s end.
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Dr. Bonnie Henry had previously made an announcement in early 2022 that all health care professionals would need to be vaccinated to work, but the latest order stops short of setting a deadline for that requirement.
The latest order requires all health care professionals from across a range of fields to report their vaccination status to their respective colleges. Those colleges will then be required to share the information with the ministry, which will verify the information against their vaccination registry.
The order applies to nurses and midwives, chiropractors, dental hygienists, dental technicians, dental surgeons, denturists, dieticians, massage therapists, naturopaths, occupational therapists, optometrists, pharmacists, physical therapists, physicians and surgeons, psychologists, speech and hearing professionals and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.
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Austria is suspending its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, its ministers for health and constitutional affairs said on Wednesday, six days before fines for breaches were due to start being handed out.
The measure has been in effect since Feb. 5, but enforcement was only due to begin on March 15.
The decision to introduce it was announced in November, before the wider emergence of the highly contagious but less severe Omicron variant in Austria. The strain on intensive-care units has since eased.
The measure has been in effect since Feb. 5, but enforcement was only due to begin on March 15.
The decision to introduce it was announced in November, before the wider emergence of the highly contagious but less severe Omicron variant in Austria. The strain on intensive-care units has since eased.
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As Canada reopens amid loosening pandemic restrictions, some people are finding it hard to recall words or names or compute things in their heads. Maybe you don’t remember all the steps to your morning routine anymore or your child’s teacher’s name.
Approximately 600 million people worldwide experience cognitive impairment in the form of “brain fog”. This “fog” is a common symptom of what is dubbed “long COVID,” the long-term effects of having contracted the COVID-19 virus.
Why is this happening and what can be done to combat it?
“I don’t think we exactly know the answer…these are all, neuroscientifically, not very well-defined things,” said Dr. Adrian Owen, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Western University in London, Ontario.
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Even though “brain fog” lacks a specific scientific definition, he said they are starting to understand how it impacts the brains of people who have had COVID.
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Wednesday will mark the two calendar year anniversary of Yale New Haven Well being System’s very first Covid affected individual admission, which was at Bridgeport Hospital.
At a press meeting Tuesday, chief professional medical officer Dr. Tom Balcezak mentioned about 21,000 Covid individuals had been addressed and discharged, land all but 1,700 were being discharged properly and healthier back home, nevertheless some do however have lengthy Covid.
Dr. Tom Balcezak, chief clinical officer at Yale New Haven Wellbeing Procedure
Again in December, there was a five-fold improve in the selection of Covid-optimistic hospitalizations. The increase to 513 on the very last working day of the month, compared to 100 at the beginning of the month reflected the impression of Omicron variant.
Marna Borgstrom, CEO of the Health Program, stated as not too long ago as mid-January there have been 767 individuals across the system.
On Tuesday there were just 58 in, which include 7 patients in the ICU and 3 on ventilators.
“That’s a rather extraordinary turnaround,” she reported. “Unlike previous variants, this 1 had a quite meteoric increase and fell very precipitously. I imagine back again to the time when we have been counting our ventilators and hoping we had ample.”
Breakdown of the 58 clients being dealt with for Covid on Tuesday: 2 at Greenwich Medical center 33 at Yale New Haven Hospital 17 at Bridgeport Healthcare facility 6 at Lawrence + Memorial Healthcare facility at Westerly Medical center in Rhode Island
Asked about Florida surgeon normal Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s advice that “healthy” children not get Covid-19 vaccines, Balcezak said, “Any time there is a statement manufactured like that that does not have its origins, roots or backing data, I imagine it undermines our attempts to give the community excellent steerage. The problem in the pandemic has been hoping to give folks good guidance with very very little data and continually evolving details.”
“The statement by the surgeon typical is truly from present information,” he ongoing. “There is a change in between offering assistance when you don’t know the respond to and giving wrong tips when the remedy is known…We know that the vaccine performs in small children. We know it operates to avoid the distribute of disease. So I never realize the logic in that scenario.”
Dr. Balcezak explained nasal vaccines were being at minimum 6 months to a yr away.
“We have some expertise with nasal vaccines with influenza,” he said. “They function extremely nicely with the flu. The hope is that if you give a nasal vaccine you can sort of ‘prime the immune system’ in the mucus membranes in your nose …where the Covid virus enters your system, and neutralize it at the point of entry alternatively than wait around until eventually it receives into your human body and replicates, and then neutralize it in your blood stream.”
“The imagined is it may be ready to catch the virus ‘upstream,’ right before it receives a foothold in your entire body,” he said.
On the subject matter of a feasible fourth dose (on top of two vaccines moreover a booster), Balcezak said immunity may well past 6 months to a year, and that there would likely be recommendations afterwards this summer season or early in the drop for a different dose, relying on scientific studies of longstanding immunity and circumstance fees.
In potential, he explained it is probably there will be a time when Covid will become cyclical, and an yearly booster accessible like there is for flue.
Asked about the impact of two many years of the pandemic on behavioral well being, Dr. Balcezak reported there had been a huge need for behavioral well being services, both equally in pediatric and grownup clients.
“And, we have supplied enhanced guidance and counseling to our possess workers,” Balcezak mentioned. “We’ve found a huge uptick in staff looking for aid. I imagine every person is underneath huge tension and pressure, and that has manifested by itself in a whole lot of behavioral well being difficulties throughout our populations – not just uniquely amongst kids.”
While mask mandates have been dropped across the point out, Dr. Balcezak reported there was even now a federal mandate to mask in health care environments.
“We’ve been chatting about what it may search like if we start off to permit in off-campus, non health care settings our personnel to opt for no matter if to mask or not,” he mentioned.
In big crowded configurations, Balcezak mentioned that personally he felt additional relaxed carrying a mask.
“We’re not only protecting ourselves, but we’re preserving each other because masks are a two-way avenue,” he explained. ”
Chris O’Connor, Yale New Haven Overall health Program President, mentioned the overall health process is responding to the massive and horrifying incursion of Russia into Ukraine.
“To deliver some small comfort and guidance, the Wellness Technique will be donating additional than $1 million in clinical provides to the folks of Ukraine as they endure this hostile invasion,” O’Connor explained. “We will continue on to enjoy and evaluate what we can do in the experience of this intercontinental catastrophe.”
Donated merchandise will incorporate surgical masks, gowns and N95 masks to enable caregivers in Ukraine.
O’Connor mentioned access experienced been a obstacle, but the system picked a highly regarded company to distribute the supplies.
As New Jersey marked the two-12 months anniversary Friday of its first confirmed circumstance of COVID-19, Gov. Phil Murphy ended the statewide general public wellness crisis, calling for a “additional typical way of lifetime” as circumstances, hospitalizations and fatalities continue to drop.
The anniversary marked a grim reminder of the pandemic’s toll as New Jersey surpassed 30,000 verified COVID fatalities Friday. In what was his administration’s final pandemic briefing Friday, Murphy choked up just just before he named for a moment of silence to keep in mind the lifeless.
But the mood at the Trenton War Memorial was optimistic general as Murphy and Health and fitness Commissioner Judy Persichilli said the state was going into a new chapter working with a virus that appears to be waning but however has the ability to surge.
“We are ready to move forward and not are living our lives in concern,” Murphy claimed.
The public wellbeing crisis will be lifted Monday on the exact same working day that the statewide university mask mandate ends — just one of the very last main mitigation actions that Murphy enacted.
As of Friday, there were 30,014 confirmed COVID fatalities and an additional 2,968 possible deaths — generally citizens who died from COVID-like indications but had been by no means tested.
Due to the fact the omicron variant’s peak in mid-January, all of New Jersey’s COVID metrics have plummeted, which includes additional than an 80{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} drop in hospitalizations, intense care admissions and individuals needing ventilators, in accordance to condition info.
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Despite the drop, the pandemic has taken unforeseen turns. Murphy had known as for a return to normalization very last May perhaps prior to the delta variant surged previous summer months and omicron in December, killing thousands.
“I’d really like to say by our last briefing it is around and it is appear to an conclude. It is not,” Murphy claimed. “We consider we can responsibly are living a ordinary existence with COVID. But an endemic indicates it continues to be in our midst.”
James Cai, a 32-12 months-previous New York health practitioner assistant with an apartment in Fort Lee, examined optimistic on March 4, 2020 following he made indicators a few times before and was admitted to Hackensack College Healthcare Centre.
Cai survived but the pandemic’s unimaginable toll was just starting. As of Friday, there have been 1,876,729 verified conditions in New Jersey.
The state’s initial loss of life came a couple of days soon after Cai’s positive scenario: John Brennan, a 69-year-aged horse trainer from Minimal Ferry.
Large swaths of each day lifestyle in New Jersey soon began shutting down. The point out all but came to a prevent beginning March 21 when Murphy ordered nearly all citizens to quarantine at residence and all nonessential corporations to near indefinitely.
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Nursing houses would bear the brunt of the pandemic as 9,295 inhabitants and staff died such as substantial numbers at the condition-run veterans households in Paramus and Menlo Park.
While Murphy has said he wished to have an unbiased authority to overview his administration’s managing of the pandemic, there has been no sign publicly that he has manufactured any moves to make that come about. He explained on Friday that he is even now committed to accomplishing so.
The public wellbeing emergency gave Murphy tremendous electricity to take care of the pandemic. At the outset, it incorporated imposing keep-at-household orders, shuttering companies and parks and issuing mask mandates.
The final remaining restriction is a mask mandate at point out properties. Murphy said he would look to elevate that “sooner alternatively than later on.”
Masks are nonetheless required at wellness treatment facilities and on general public transportation by using federal regulations.
Vaccine and booster shot mandates for health and fitness treatment personnel and jail guards will remain in influence with deadlines looming subsequent month. Republicans have argued that Murphy should rescind those mandates thanks to the fall on COVID metrics. “No one must be fired from their occupation because they want to make their have overall health treatment conclusions,” Sen. Anthony Bucco, R-Morris, claimed Friday. Public well being officials have warned that COVID even now continues to be a risk and can mutate into one more contagious strain.
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Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know on the novel coronavirus situation in B.C.
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Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know on the novel coronavirus situation in B.C. for March 3, 2022.
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B.C.’S COVID-19 CASE NUMBERS
Here are the latest figures given on March 3:
• Total number of confirmed cases: 349,604 • New cases: 391 • Total deaths: 2,896 (13 reported in past 24 hours) • Hospitalized cases: 511 • Intensive care: 79 • Total vaccinations: 4,517,958 received first dose (90.6{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of eligible pop. 5+); 4,303,614 second doses (86.3{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}); 2,590,923 third doses (55.9{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of those 12+) • Long-term care and assisted-living homes, and acute care facilities currently affected: 21
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IN-DEPTH: Here are all the B.C. cases of the novel coronavirus in 2021 | in 2020
B.C. GUIDES AND LINKS
• COVID-19: B.C.’s vaccine passport is here and this is how it works
• COVID-19: Afraid of needles? Here’s how to overcome your fear and get vaccinated
• COVID-19: Here’s where to get tested in Metro Vancouver
B.C. health officials reported 13 more deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the total death toll in the province to 2,896 since the start of the pandemic.
Another 391 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus were also reported, though that number reflects selective PCR testing that prioritizes those who are vulnerable or experiencing severe symptoms.
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More than 90 per cent of the eligible population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and more than 86 per cent have had two doses.
Those numbers have seen only marginal gains in recent weeks as the vaccination campaign focuses on booster doses. Third shots have now been administered to 55.9 per cent of those who are eligible (age 12 and over).
One new outbreak in care has been declared, at Parkwood Court in Island Health, while another at Rest Haven Lodge, also in Island Health, is over. That leaves 21 health-care facilities still managing an outbreak across the province.
— Joseph Ruttle
Fraser Health Authority closing down some large vaccine clinics
Fraser Health officials are scaling back the large COVID-19 vaccine clinics and will shift the focus to child immunizations.
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The health authority said more than 90 per cent of eligible people 12 years and older in the region have received at least two doses of vaccine, so they are ramping down to meet demand.
Sarah Siebert, director of clinical operations for Fraser Health’s Pandemic Response COVID-19 Testing and Immunization Centres, said they are consolidating resources in each community. So for example, the Cloverdale Recreation Centre the Poirier Forum testing sites have closed and the one at the Anvil Community Centre in New Westminster will close in the coming weeks.
The South Surrey Recreation Centre testing site closed last month to vaccines but will reopen on March 17 for kids’ vaccinations. The last day for the vaccines at Kwantlen Polytechnic University will be March 18, while the Langley Event Centre will continue offering vaccines for now.
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Ontario likely to end mask mandate by end of month
Ontario is poised to remove masking mandates by the end of March if current positive COVID-19 trends continue, chief medical health officer Dr. Kieran Moore says.
In what’s expected to be his second-last regular weekly COVID-19 update, the province’s top public health doctor said he’ll make recommendations shortly on an appropriate time to lift compulsory face-covering requirement for schools and the general public.
“But I ask all Ontarians, if you’re vulnerable to this virus, if you haven’t received your full dose of vaccine — first, second, third or fourth dose — that you remain prudent, that we remain kind and considerate to those that decide to wear masks,” Moore said Thursday. “I do believe they are protective, they do decrease your personal risk, but … we can only mandate masking for so long.”
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— Toronto Sun
CBSA resumes airport service as federal travel restrictions ease
The Canadian Border Services Agency is resuming regular service at two B.C. airports after federal travel guidelines eased earlier this week.
The CBSA will now operate from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, at Penticton and Pringe George airports, after earlier suspending service due to COVID-19 in March 2020.
Following the federal government’s travel restriction update on Feb. 28, international flights are now also permitted to land at three B.C. airports, where they had previously been halted due to the pandemic.
Those airports include Kamloops and Nanaimo airports, as well as the Vancouver International Airport’s small aircraft station. The CBSA will resume regular clearance services at these three points of entry.
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10 deaths reported Tuesday, outbreaks in care drop despite five new ones
B.C. reported 10 more deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday after a rare report a day earlier with none.
That raises the death toll to 2,883 since the start of the pandemic.
Some 442 new cases of the viral disease were confirmed in the past 24 hours, though that number only reflects testing of those who are symptomatic or clinically vulnerable.
Those who suspect they have COVID-19 but are experiencing only mild symptoms and have no other risk factors are advised to isolate but not to get a test.
Five new outbreaks have been reported in long-term and acute care, including Mission Memorial Hospital in Fraser Health, Gillis House in Interior Health, and Berwick House Gordon Head, The Heights at Mt. View and Greenwoods, all in Island Health.
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However, the B.C. Health Ministry said 11 other outbreaks across the province were declared over, dropping the number that are active to 21.
— Joseph Ruttle
Interior Health moving to pharmacy and clinic-based vaccination
With vaccination rates reaching new heights, Interior Health is winding down its mass immunization clinics and moving the campaign to pharmacies and IH-operated health centres.
COVID-19 vaccine appointments in the coming weeks will gradually move out of the large clinics into the pharmacies and health centres in Interior Health.
Anyone who hasn’t received a vaccine, booster or pediatric vaccine (for children age five to 11) can continue to book appointments as before. Pediatric vaccines will be administered in IH clinics while those 12 and older can go to a pharmacy in their community. More than 90 pharmacies are part of the program in the health region
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Regular and pop-up clinics will continue in some rural and remote communities where access to pharmacies is limited.
—Joseph Ruttle
Nerve damage may explain some cases of long COVID: U.S. study
A small study of patients suffering from persistent symptoms long after a bout of COVID-19 found that nearly 60{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} had nerve damage possibly caused by a defective immune response, a finding that could point to new treatments, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
The study involved in depth exams of 17 people with so-called long COVID, a condition that arises within three months of a COVID-19 infection and lasts at least two months.
— Reuters
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Most People in america dwell in sites wherever balanced persons, which includes pupils in educational facilities, can safely and securely choose a split from donning masks beneath new U.S. recommendations introduced Friday.
The Centers for Ailment Control and Prevention outlined the new set of actions for communities where COVID-19 is easing its grip, with much less of a focus on good exam final results and far more on what is happening at hospitals.
The new method drastically variations the look of the CDC’s threat map and puts additional than 70{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of the U.S. inhabitants in counties where the coronavirus is posing a small or medium risk to hospitals. All those are the men and women who can prevent wearing masks, the company claimed.
That handles 51 counties in Minnesota — together with Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Washington and Wright counties — in accordance to the CDC’s hazard map.
The agency is still advising that people today, like schoolchildren, use masks where by the danger of COVID-19 is substantial. That is the condition in about 37{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of U.S. counties, where by about 28{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of People reside, and 38 counties in Minnesota — largely the southeastern and north-central parts of the point out.
Minnesota Division of Overall health Commissioner Jan Malcolm issued the following statement to 5 EYEWITNESS News, about the CDC’s current steerage:
“We are relieved to see COVID-19 case numbers fall in Minnesota and all-around the state as the Omicron wave recedes. As today’s announcement from CDC signifies, we are continuing to discover more about how very best to assess chance for persons and for communities, and now we are entering a phase of the pandemic in which these kinds of decisions will be pushed extra by area and person things.
“This new framework recommends absolutely everyone wear masks indoors only in regions with superior unfold, as defined by their new indicators. In accordance to this new framework, 51 Minnesota counties are at the very low or medium amount the place masking recommendations are dependent on unique aspects. In the weeks forward we really encourage Minnesotans to be in contact with their wellbeing treatment company if they have inquiries, and use the levels of security they feel ideal in light of their group and private situations.
“Regardless of the COVID-19 amount in a local community, we advise folks keep up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines and get examined when wanted.
“While it is now distinct that COVID-19 will not be removed anytime before long, we are at a place where by it has become a lot less of an imminent risk for quite a few Minnesotans many thanks to vaccines and other applications out there to us. Our group is remaining vigilant and working difficult to ensure that Minnesotans have ongoing accessibility to these resources. The decreasing disease load in Minnesota gives us rationale to foresee brighter days ahead.”
MDH Commissioner Jan Malcolm
The new suggestions do not transform the requirement to put on masks on public transportation and indoors in airports, practice stations and bus stations. The CDC suggestions for other indoor areas aren’t binding, this means metropolitan areas and institutions even in places of reduced possibility may possibly set their own guidelines. And the agency states people with COVID-19 signs and symptoms or who check beneficial shouldn’t halt wearing masks.
But with security from immunity rising — both equally from vaccination and an infection — the in general threat of serious disorder is now usually lessen, the CDC claimed.
“Anybody is absolutely welcome to use a mask at any time if they really feel safer putting on a mask,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky mentioned in a information briefing. “We want to make sure our hospitals are Okay and folks are not coming in with critical illness. … Anybody can go to the CDC website, find out the quantity of illness in their community and make that choice.”
Considering the fact that July, CDC’s transmission-prevention assistance to communities has focused on two steps — the fee of new COVID-19 cases and the percentage of good examination final results in excess of the preceding 7 days.
Primarily based on all those actions, agency officers advised individuals to put on masks indoors in counties where distribute of the virus was considered considerable or substantial. This 7 days, more than 3,000 of the nation’s extra than 3,200 counties — greater than 95{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} — were being mentioned as getting substantial or superior transmission.
That direction has significantly been dismissed, nevertheless, with states, metropolitan areas, counties and faculty districts across the U.S. asserting designs to drop mask mandates amid declining COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
With lots of Americans now taking off their masks, the CDC’s change will not make considerably useful change for now, claimed Andrew Noymer, a general public well being professor at the College of California, Irvine. But it will assistance when the next wave of infection — a chance in the slide or winter — starts off threatening healthcare facility capacity once again, he said.
“There will be more waves of COVID. And so I feel it tends to make sense to give folks a crack from masking,” Noymer reported. “If we have continuous masking orders, they may possibly turn into a complete joke by the time we truly have to have them again.”
The CDC is also presenting a shade-coded map — with counties specified as orange, yellow or green — to assist guidebook nearby officials and residents. In environmentally friendly counties, nearby officials can fall any indoor masking procedures. Yellow indicates people today at large hazard for intense disease should be careful. Orange designates locations in which the CDC implies masking need to be common.
How a county arrives to be designated eco-friendly, yellow or orange will count on its rate of new COVID-19 hospital admissions, the share of staffed clinic beds occupied by COVID-19 patients and the level of new conditions in the group.
Mask specifications currently have finished in most of the U.S. in the latest weeks. Los Angeles on Friday started allowing for men and women to take out their masks while indoors if they are vaccinated, and indoor mask mandates in Washington condition and Oregon will be lifted in March.
In a indication of the political divisions in excess of masks, Florida’s governor on Thursday announced new tips termed “Buck the CDC” that really discourage mask donning.
Condition health officers are generally happy with the new assistance and “excited with how this is remaining rolled out,” stated Dr. Marcus Plescia of the Association of Condition and Territorial Wellbeing Officials.
“This is the way we need to go. I imagine this is using us forward with a new route likely on in the pandemic,” Plescia claimed. “But we’re still concentrating on safety. We’re still focusing on protecting against death and health issues.”
The CDC stated the new method will be valuable in predicting long term surges and urged communities with wastewater surveillance techniques to use that data too.
“If or when new variants arise or the virus surges, we have additional strategies to guard ourselves and our communities than at any time before,” Walensky explained.
