COVID-19 updates
Posted: June 5, 2022
By: Tiffany Crawford and Joseph Ruttle
Hospitalizations are dropping in BC, with 421 hospitalized from May 22-28. However, COVID-19 cases rose by 10.4% in a week, and we may have to be looking out for other respiratory viruses as well. There is also a data void due to a lack of centralized information and very little information available to the majority population. This means we may miss out on valuable data about the lasting effects of COVID-19. However, it has been found that when the vaccine is administered during pregnancy, it has cut down on the number of infant infections. Canada has kept the travel restrictions, and they will stay in place for at least another month. They have authorized 16 and 17 year olds to solely get a single shot of Pfizer or BioNTech, as it’s been found that a booster shot increases risks of inflammatory heart conditions.
Ultimately, I find this article interesting as, despite that there is still a pandemic clearly going on, it very rarely is spoken about anymore. Within this article is a whole list of developments, and yet I haven’t heard anyone speak about new COVID news for months. While I’m glad that it seems to be dying down, it's still not over, and yet it seems that we have given up on being informed. The data void is something that I find very interesting, not from a medical perspective, but wondering how society might change in order to try and better centralize the information we have about various diseases.
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