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I haven't heard anything about further boosters. I also haven't been paying attention so if there is something, I would miss it. I'll see what my doctors or the BC Cancer Agency say.
 
Huh, interesting about the responses from other provinces.

When I posted in March I thought Alberta was slow on this. I had checked the site Feb/early March they had actually made an update stating only 1 bivalent booster was allowed. I'm not really sure why they did that then, other than shadiness in the province in general. Mid-later March seemed late, considering when NACI came out with their info. Also concerning as it's not really being advertised, so someone who looked a month ago might not even know they have the option.

Other than the flip flopping from a month ago until now, the information presented here seems fairly easy to understand.

  • Eligibility: People at higher risk of severe outcomes who received a bivalent booster dose on or after September 21, 2022, including:
    • Albertans 65 years and older (starting April 3, 2023)
    • Residents of long-term care facilities and other congregate care living settings who are 18 years and older (starting the week of March 20, 2023)
    • Adults 18 years and older with the following eligible immunocompromising conditions (starting April 3, 2023):
      • Recipients of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy
      • Individuals with moderate to severe primary immunodeficiency (for example, DiGeorge syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome)
      • Individuals with advanced untreated HIV infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
      • Recipients of immunosuppressive therapies (for example, anti-B cell therapies, high-dose systemic corticosteroids, alkylating agents, antimetabolites, or tumor-necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors and other biologic agents)
      • Transplant recipients, including solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplants
      • Individuals with chronic kidney disease receiving regular dialysis
      • Recipients of active cancer treatment (chemotherapy, immunotherapy or targeted therapies), excluding those receiving only hormonal therapy, radiation therapy or surgery
      • Individuals taking certain medications for autoimmune diseases including rituximab, ocrelizumab, ofatumumab and methotrexate
 
I remembered I am registered in the BC vaccine system. Anyone who is registered will get an invitation for flu shots and covid vaccines. I don't need to do anything until I get an invitation. If or when that happens I'll decide what to do.
 
Nova Scotia recommendation as of March 2023:
The following people should get a spring dose if their last dose was more than six months (168 days) ago:

  • adults 80 years of age or older
  • adults living in long-term care, nursing homes, senior congregate living settings or residential care facilities
  • adults who meet criteria for being moderately to severely immunocompromised.
These groups, especially those who haven’t yet had COVID-19, can consider receiving a spring dose:

  • adults 65 to 79 years old
  • people of African descent aged 50 to 79 years old
  • First Nations people aged 50 to 79 years old.
 
As of upcoming Saturday, Germany is dropping all Covid restrictions, the last one being masking in hospitals and nursing homes. There are still people in ICU with Covid, about 1800, but it basically is now considered endemic and not pandemic.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
As of upcoming Saturday, Germany is dropping all Covid restrictions, the last one being masking in hospitals and nursing homes. There are still people in ICU with Covid, about 1800, but it basically is now considered endemic and not pandemic.
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It's close to that here. Testing centers closed. When I was at the hospital they had shifted the screening area from an entrance to the middle of the building - a difference I saw from an appointment on Monday to getting bloodwork done a few days later.
Screening has or will be stopped, I'm not sure of the date.
Masking policies have shifted so that in non-patient areas it's not required and they are looking at dropping masking for patients soon.
I would have to compare the populations but it wouldn't surprise me if proportionally the ICU rates are not all that different, maybe a bit lower here due to a fairly young population.
 
ChemGal said:
Screening has or will be stopped, I'm not sure of the date.
Masking policies have shifted so that in non-patient areas it's not required and they are looking at dropping masking for patients soon.
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I was just in a hospital (Orillia, Ontario) a week ago for a meeting. Screening was entirely self-screening, basically a sign asking the usual questions about symptoms and travel. Masks were still mandatory, even in the meeting rooms, and they had a stock at the door that you could use if you did not bring one.
 
Mendalla said:
I was just in a hospital (Orillia, Ontario) a week ago for a meeting. Screening was entirely self-screening, basically a sign asking the usual questions about symptoms and travel. Masks were still mandatory, even in the meeting rooms, and they had a stock at the door that you could use if you did not bring one.
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It was staffed when I was there. I find the policies a little ridiculous what they focus on. People wait in the screening line without masks, as they aren't handed one until they are screened. I was triple masking because I went in with 2 (medical and then cloth,which I have found provides the best fit without using a respirator) and they require a disposable (medical or non-medical) to be on the top. Since I won't take mine off, that means using 3.

Then I get up to the waiting area, which includes the waiting room for immunodeficiency patients, and the couple who showed up before me have their masks off.
 
Screening here is more relaxed. Masks are still mandatory. One of my doctors said she expects they will always be wearing masks now, especially in the cancer clinic. I will wear a mask to the hospital or doctor's office even if it's not required. Masks are suggested at the dentist now so some rules have relaxed. I believe they were under the "health facilities" mask mandates
 
I do a service at the local care home the afternoon of the first Sunday of the month. Since this started after the worst of the pandemic, you have to have a rapid test at the door, and wear a mask (supplied).. This past week, no test, but hands sanitized, sign in and a mask. I asked one of the staff if the stopping of the test meant thing were getting better covid wise? She replied, somewhat unconvincingly, "Well, the provincial government seems to think so...."
 
Redbaron said:
I do a service at the local care home the afternoon of the first Sunday of the month. Since this started after the worst of the pandemic, you have to have a rapid test at the door, and wear a mask (supplied).. This past week, no test, but hands sanitized, sign in and a mask. I asked one of the staff if the stopping of the test meant thing were getting better covid wise? She replied, somewhat unconvincingly, "Well, the provincial government seems to think so...."
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In Manitoba more people died in 2022 from Covid than the first two years of the pandemic.
And in Ontario and all of Canada the statistics are the same.
Some are saying many consider the pandemic over, but because the death toll now is mainly the elderly, ageism is involved with the less response.
 
Once used to people dyeing from disorders ... shades of emotional context become dulled ...

Thus death seems to be a consequence of absence or even a depression is something un grasped ... so it goes!

Folk become stupefied ... which may be related to extending ignorance as this is easier than learning knowledge in pious domains where knowledge is declared evil ... it may stump some phoque ... leads to epistemological displacement ... and there all essence of existence went astray ... people forgot about their reality ... perjured abstraction?
 
Waterfall said:
In Manitoba more people died in 2022 from Covid than the first two years of the pandemic.
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That’s definitely the same in NS. NS could dodge the first waves, but it seemed that the last versions of Covid were too contagious to spare even vaccinated people. AI think population did pretty good with the first two vaccinations, not sure how high the uptake was on the last ones. I am still not sure why I haven’t had it yet - unless it was so mild that I didn’t notice. But then, I am just now starting to go into places without mask- and have one handy if it gets crowded. I am pretty consistent with disinfecting my hands all the time - and I haven’t been to events with crowds until last month.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
That’s definitely the same in NS. NS could dodge the first waves, but it seemed that the last versions of Covid were too contagious to spare even vaccinated people. AI think population did pretty good with the first two vaccinations, not sure how high the uptake was on the last ones. I am still not sure why I haven’t had it yet - unless it was so mild that I didn’t notice. But then, I am just now starting to go into places without mask- and have one handy if it gets crowded. I am pretty consistent with disinfecting my hands all the time - and I haven’t been to events with crowds until last month.
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In frustration it is best to forget how things go according to administrative vectors without Q loose! These demand total freedom ... frustration dissonance ... Eris Cis ...
 
Waterfall said:
Some are saying many consider the pandemic over, but because the death toll now is mainly the elderly, ageism is involved with the less response.
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How does the toll compare with the annual toll from the flu now? If it is comparable, why would we take more measures for it than the flu? Unless you're going to argue that we're underdoing measures for the flu, which is certainly a legitimate argument to consider.
 
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