Diego Bassani 

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Senior Scientist/Epidemiologist @SickKidsNews @SickKidsGlobal Assoc. Prof @UofTMedicine @UofT_DLSPH. 🇨🇦 🇧🇷 Alumnus @ufrgsnoticias @UFPel | Views are my own
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The choices that were made.
Sweden, the disaster poster-kid.
Rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations among kids 0 to 11 years in Canada are also confirming (as they have for many months now) that our leaders are sticking a serious disease up your kids noses, quite literally. And guess what, they are being admitted to our hospitals at historical pandemic rates since December 2021. Rates were higher that at any point before December 2021 in every single week, except for three short weeks in June 2022.
Rate of ICU admissions among children 0 to 11 years in Canada also shows how ignoring the virus rewarded us generously. Or is this the case that our children are paying generously? I don't even know anymore.
Weekly deaths in Canada. You can notice clearly the pandemic has ended, right? right????
Hospital use in Canada since the pandemic 'ended' is ... well, you be the judge.
Number of sequences submitted by date of sample collection across Canadian provinces.
Sharp rise in XBB in most recent weeks in Ontario and Quebec
Quick view of XBB.1.5 across the provinces.
First set of sequences uploaded this week, a few thousand from Ontario public health lab. Lineage diversity on a sharp rise compared to last week, driven by XBB.1.5