Here is your terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad, Friday AB COVID analysis. 1/ (apologies to Alexander).

Yest Case #s 1713. Below Wed's record count, but still up from last week's 1626. Ongoing exponential growth, if a titch slower. Positivity remains same as last week's 9.65%, exactly. 2/

VoCs. Announced 1183 or 69% of total announced cases. Another 96 P1 announced. Highest day to date now 19 Apr at 42 (previously was Apr 1st at 22). Will watch this space closely. Yest's announced B1617 (Indian var) was tested on March 24... that's a long time ago. 3/

B1117 daily %s Apr 19 850/1361 62.5%1 Apr 20 1133/1759 64.4%. Slowly but inexorably climbing. 4/

Hosp inpt +... wait, can I vent here? Yest announced inpt was 398. Today's # for same day now 415! So the ground keeps shifting. Today's now 424 (don't trust that). So last 5 days increases +10/+16/+13/+14/+9, worse than prev reported. Steep rise evident on graph. 5/

ICU equally concerning. +9 to 125 (these #s consistently more accurate). That's 7.8% rise in one day. 34% rise in one week. If this continues, in 7 days, 168, in 14 days, 225. Inpts also increasing by 24%/week. 6/

I'm not sure what to say folks. Initially I started doing these threads with the hope that if the growth was seen by those in power (and the citizens of AB) they would have to act. Leaders wouldn't willingly walk their citizens down a path of certain suffering, could they? 7/

But it's increasingly evident that they can, and they will. So this is now just a recording of needless human illness and death and longCOVID. Simple reporting, rather than successful advocacy. Sorry this has failed, everyone. fin/

Thanks as always to @CBCFletch for (unwittingly) letting me steal his graphs. ultrafin/