New Brunswick’s COVID-19 threat index is the highest in the country and more than double the national average, according to researchers looking at COVID awareness across Canada, as the provincial government reported two more deaths from the virus and a week-over-week surge. Hospitalizations.
The province’s COVID-19 forecast for the Feb. 17-March 2 era is 16, or “severe,” according to data from COVID-19 Resources Canada.
Canada’s is 7. 6, or “very high. “
Both are down, Tara Moriarty, the group’s co-founder, on social media.
The risk index is calculated from three similarly weighted categories: mortality, existing infections and their spread, and effects on the physical system.
About one in 20 New Brunswickers is infected, said Moriarty, an associate professor at the University of Toronto.
In Canada, an estimated one in 47 people is infected.
Compared to Canada’s lowest pandemic numbers, infections in New Brunswick are about 26 times higher, Moriarty said.
Hospitalizations are about 8 times higher, deaths are about 22 times higher, and long COVID is about 15 times higher.
Nationally, COVID infections are currently about nine times higher than the lowest of the pandemic, hospitalizations are about five times higher, deaths are about thirteen times higher, and long COVID cases are eight times higher.
COVID-19 activity remains subdued, according to the province’s respiratory surveillance report, released Tuesday, due to the long weekend.
“Most of the signs — number of cases, percent positivity and number of outbreaks — have decreased from the existing baseline period,” Feb. 4 to Feb. 10, he said.
CBC has requested an interview with Dr. Yves Léger, the province’s acting director of health.
The two New Brunswickers who died from COVID-19 in the baseline week were 65 years of age or older.
Their deaths bring the pandemic’s death toll to at least 1,011. The actual figure overall is unclear because the province has only counted other people who died in hospital as COVID deaths since September.
According to the Respiratory Watch report, another thirty-one people were recently admitted to the hospital with or with COVID during the reporting week. This represents an increase of nearly 41 percent from the other 22 people hospitalized in the previous report.
Four other people needed intensive care, compared to the previous five.
Among those hospitalized are two young people under the age of 4 and a young man between the ages of five and 19.
The others come with three other people between the ages of 20 and 44, four between the ages of 45 and 64 and another 21 people between the ages of 65 and older, according to the report.
Two COVID outbreaks have been demonstrated by laboratory testing, either in nursing homes, up to eight.
There was also a reduction in the number of new COVID cases shown through PCR (polymerase chain reaction) laboratory tests, from 86 to 76. The province has limited PCR testing since April to other people who are being counseled through a physical care provider and whose outcome will directly influence their treatment or care.
The positivity rate (the percentage of lab-tested PCR tests performed that produced a result) fell from seven percent to six percent.
A total of 143,494 XBB. 1. 5 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered since October 4, according to figures from the Ministry of Health.
No flu deaths were reported between Feb. 4 and Feb. 10, according to the Respiratory Watch report, but the virus sent 11 other people to the hospital, in addition to a child under the age of four and a young man between the ages of five and 19. .
The remaining hospitalizations are two other people ages 20 to 44, one from 45 to 64 and six from 65 and older.
One user required intensive care, ranging from forty-five to 64 years old.
Last week, another 12 people were hospitalized and none were admitted to intensive care.
“Flu activity declined slightly” in the week of the report, according to the report.
Two laboratory-confirmed outbreaks were reported, unchanged from last week. One is in a retirement home and the other in a facility described as “other. “
Five schools have experienced outbreaks of “flu-like illness,” compared to six previously. No information has been revealed, such as the names of the schools, the number of cases, and whether they are academic or involved.
School outbreaks result in a 10% truancy rate due to flu-like symptoms, according to the report.
There were 93 new laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza, with a positivity rate of 8 percent. That’s less than 102 cases and a percent positivity rate.
The distribution of new cases was 58 influenza A (not subtyped), seven influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 and 28 influenza B.
This brings the total to 2,437 since the start of the breathing season on Aug. 27.
According to the Department of Health, 217,519 New Brunswickers have been vaccinated against the flu this season.
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