2021-12-21 Canadian COVID Case Update

I am split between doing these updates as they come in and spamming people’s inbox, so let me know if daily case updates are not appreciated and I can switch to a once weekly format.

Here are today’s updates with, as always, a bit of context added in. The weekend update can be found here.

Alberta

On Tuesday there were:

• 802 new cases

• 41 in the partially vaccinated cohort including 17 in the first 14 days

• 621 in the fully vaccinated/booster cohort

• 140 in the unvaccinated cohort

• 2 deaths, 1 in the fully vaccinated

That works out to 82.5% of cases in the vaccinated population. As of Monday, the province is 78.6% vaccinated.

I found the follow chart and graph interesting for those interested in how subversive and unreliable the Alberta has been from the beginning.

Note the proportion of unvaccinated cases in the under 12 age range.

On the left is vaccinated cases in the first 14 days. The hot pink cases are in the under 12 years old age range. There is slightly less than 500 cases there, and they are likely still active (as the vaccine was approved midway through last month). They even count the ones 14 days after the first dose in the unvaccinated cohort in the chart above. Yikes.

Saskatchewan

Over Tuesday there were:

• 67 new cases

• 2 in the partially vaccinated cohort

• 35 in the fully vaccinated/booster cohort

• 30 in the unvaccinated cohort

That works out to 55% of cases in the vaccinated population. As of Monday, the province is 79.4% vaccinated¹.

Manitoba

On Tuesday there were:

• 302 new cases

• 12 cases in the partially vaccinated cohort

• 230 cases in the fully vaccinated cohort

• 60 cases in the unvaccinated cohort

That works out to 80.13% of cases in the vaccinated population. Currently, the province is 80.8% vaccinated.

Ontario

On Tuesday there were:

• 3305 new cases

• 132 in the partially vaccinated cohort

• 2500 in the fully vaccinated/booster cohort

• 673 in the unvaccinated cohort

That works out to 79.64% of cases in the vaccinated population. As of Monday the province is 82.3% vaccinated.

Quebec

On Tuesday there were:

• 5043 new cases

• 238 in the partially vaccinated cohort

• 3586 in the fully vaccinated/booster cohort

• 1219 in the unvaccinated cohort

That works out to 75.83% of cases in the vaccinated population. As of Monday, the province is 84.1% vaccinated.

1. Note, this is the least reliable data of all the provinces. Saskatchewan only counts individuals as vaccinated if they are 3 weeks post first dose (all other provinces are 2 weeks). As this coincides with a period where first doses are being distributed in large numbers to the 5-11 age group, many of the unvaccinated cases likely fall into the vaccinated category. Furthermore, as the cases were quite low and the unvaccinated are forced to test for work in most places, the vaccinated cases are likely deflated in comparison.