While the effects of the Delta variant remain to be seen, there’s reason to be quite optimistic around here.
The usual timeline sees infections on day 1, a spike in hospitalizations 10 to 14 days later, and
deaths a week after that. Those are rough numbers, but purely from a “leading indicator” point of view, they’ve been pretty consistent.One thing that’s emerging is that the May long-weekend didn’t cause any big outbreaks. We’re not seeing growing hospitalization numbers; on the contrary.
There are, at present, 195 people in B.C. hospitalized with C19. That’s the lowest number since Nov. 16th. Of those, only 47 are in the ICU, also the lowest since mid-November. And for the first time… More
I was chatting with my Mum a few weeks ago and she was remembering the summer of 1949 or ’50 or thereabouts, and they were on vacation on the Sunshine Coast. Her father kept them an extra couple of weeks, missing the beginning of the school year in September, because of a polio outbreak back home in Vancouver, and he was terrified for the kids.
Seems so, almost quaint, now … Like you say, hopefully we’ll be sharing stories like these with _our_ grandkids about C19.