htmlOn September 14, WHO (WHO Organization ) once said at a press conference: "The global mortality rate of new crown has reached a historical low. The world has never been at a better moment than now, and the end is near." Tedros once seriously considered whether he could no longer regard the new crown epidemic as a "public health emergency of international concern."
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Now a month has passed, and WHO has changed its words.
At the epidemic briefing held on October 19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: The new crown epidemic still constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern and continues to have an adverse and strong impact on the health of the world's population." — This is the highest level alarm that the WHO can issue in accordance with the International Health Regulations.
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Tsenger Adhanom Adhanas espionage said at a press conference that day: "Although the global epidemic situation has improved significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus continues to change, and there are still many risks and uncertainties. This pandemic caught us off guard and is likely to make a comeback in the future."
WHO first announced the COVID-19 pandemic as a global public health incident on January 30, 2020. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the world has reported more than 622 million confirmed cases and more than 650 cases to the WHO. There are thousands of deaths, and these figures are considered severely underestimated.
According to the WHO global dashboard, reported 263,000 new cases in the past 24 hours, while 856 new deaths have been reported in the past week.
The COVID-19 pandemic has obviously not stopped and is making a comeback.
Canada hospitalization rate is twice as high as
According to data from the Canadian Department of Public Health, 022, the number of infections nationwide reached 20,002. And everyone knows that this number is just the tip of the iceberg, because there are too many infected people who have not been counted.
Source: Canadian Public Health Agency
At the time of September 15 to October 15, 2022, Canadian hospitals have an average of about 4,700 people hospitalized for COVID-19 every day. , while in the same period last year, there were only 2,000 people per day on average.
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Among all provinces, Quebec's medical system has been hit hardest. The province now has more than 2,000 hospitalizations, the first time since August this year. The provincial health minister called on residents to receive vaccination as soon as possible to increase protection.
Ontario Public Health Department has also reported similar trends. This week, the number of hospitalizations for the new crown in Ontario ontario increased to 1,629, reaching the highest since May 4. Nobel and New Zealand provinces also saw a trend of increasing number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19, especially the number of elderly people aged 70 to 80 needs to be hospitalized.
Toronto emergency room doctor Dr. Kashif Pirzada said that the number of hospitals has been crowded with patients, especially children, has surged. Not only are there new coronavirus infections, but many are affected by other respiratory viruses and flu .
Pirzada warns that emerging variants pose an additional threat in Canada similar to the UK and Singapore are currently experiencing, as cases associated with the BQ.1.1 and XBB subvariants increase.
HSU reported that the number of new crown cases increased sharply this week. The XBB variant is triggering a drastic wave, with the country likely to see 15,000 cases a day, the Singapore Health Minister said in a press conference last Saturday.
Pirzada said: "Before the same thing starts to happen in Canada, we may only have two to three weeks of preparation time."
BC real infection rate may be 100 times higher
According to the latest analysis of the independent modeling team of the BC province of Canada, the real infection rate of is likely to be 100 times higher.
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The latest report of the Independent Modeling Group of the BC Provincial COVID-19 The latest report used blood sample data from the Canadian Blood Service and the National COVID-19 Immunization Task Force to evaluate the true transmission rate. Data shows that almost everyone in the province has antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19 coronavirus), either from vaccination, or from infection, or both. At the same time, about 50% of the population in the province have infected antibodies. The report of the
simulation team compared this total with the official statistics, which was much lower. In 2022, there were only 100,000 cases reported in BC Province. Sarah Otto, a member of the
modeling group and professor of UBC, pointed out that 50% of the population infection means 2.5 million confirmed cases in the province, which shows that the actual number of infections is far higher than the reported cases. "Based on how many people have evidence of past infections in their blood, we estimate that the current reported cases may be underestimated by 100 times."
This way, according to the latest epidemic data, 111 November 2 to October 8, there were at least 69,400 new coronavirus infection cases in BC Province.
Source: Canadian Public Health Agency
A study by the Royal Canadian Society found that the number of new crown deaths in BC province may be twice the number of reported coronavirus deaths because the excess mortality rate in BC province is abnormally high.
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"Why are all these people dying in this province and we don't know what caused their deaths?" Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Toronto said "There has always been a big gap between expected and unexplained excess mortality rates in BC, which cannot be explained by the number of COVID-19 deaths or the number of reported toxic drug deaths, and many of them occurred in 65 Among people aged and older. ”
For much of this pandemic, BC government and health officials have been criticized for being secretive about COVID-19 statistics, research and various data, despite demands for “displaying (their) work.”
BCGovernor and the health minister repeatedly boasted that the province has resisted the pandemic better than most other provinces, but the virus test results in BC have been far below the national average.
If this survey data is true, then the risks faced by the provincial people in the pandemic and the upcoming autumn and winter are probably much greater than what we do...
