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The COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia forms part of an ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 , a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . On January 28, 2020, British Columbia became the second province to confirm a case of COVID-19 in Canada.
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority serves the 1.25 million of British Columbia's population of five million (approximately one in four) who live in a geographic area of 58,560 square kilometres (22,610 sq mi) that includes 12 municipalities, four regional districts and 14 Aboriginal communities. VCH is geographically divided into three health service delivery areas (HSDA), which in turn are ...
COVID-19 vaccination in Canada is an ongoing, intergovernmental effort coordinated between the bodies responsible in the Government of Canada to acquire and distribute vaccines to individual provincial and territorial governments who in turn administer authorized COVID-19 vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Provinces have worked with local municipal governments, hospital systems ...
A Vancouver care home where 41 residents died in British Columbia's deadliest Covid-19 outbreak initially told relatives there was "minimal" risk when a staff member first tested positive, so it ...
rheumatoid arthritis. lupus. type 1 diabetes. thyroid disease. Crohn’s disease. certain allergies, with limited risk. asthma, with limited risk. Not all autoimmune systems present the same level ...
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was one of the most common complications of COVID-19. With ARDS, the lungs are so severely damaged that fluid begins to leak into them. As a result, the ...
COVID-19 is a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that can trigger what doctors call a respiratory tract infection. In early 2020, the World Health Organization identified SARS-CoV-2 as a new type of ...
Cheng says that COVID-19 response funds probably would have been better spent if there was a focus on providing better ventilation in buildings, more household tests, higher quality masks, and ...