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In the densely populated West End and Downtown, there’s a sea of dark pink to indicate it’s a high risk area for loneliness and isolation not surprising given its high percentage of people 65 years of age and older and number of people living in private single dwellings.
But click on the level of education disruption, which looks at the percentage of people aged five to 19, and it’s a different story: the map switches to beige, indicating a low risk.
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VANCOUVER A longtime MP from British Columbia is urging the province to use its stockpile of more than a million rapid COVID-19 tests before it s too late. Dr. Hedy Fry, who has represented the Vancouver Centre riding for decades, said it s frustrating that tests provided by the federal government free of charge are continuing to sit in warehouses and on shelves across the country. The federal government is buying these things and sending them to the provinces gratis, and they re going to expire, Fry said. What a waste of money. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested Ottawa may begin sending the rapid tests directly to pharmacies rather than see them go to waste.
VANCOUVER Researchers at Simon Fraser University estimate that rapid testing for COVID-19 - if it had been available - could have prevented as many as half of the deaths from the disease in long-term care and assisted-living facilities in B.C. in 2020. The research - shared Friday by SafeCare BC, an industry association that advocates for care workers in the province - looked at two possible scenarios for using rapid tests in long-term care and modelled what the outcome of each scenario might be. The first scenario considered testing care home staff on a weekly basis, while the second one modelled testing of staff every three days.