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Here& #39;s your AB COVID19 #s for Saturday, abbreviated because still figuring out what the rapidly evolving situation looks like. 1/
Cases 2473, a whopping 62.5% increase over last Friday& #39;s 1522. Seems... Crazy? Could this be some reporting error? Stacked cases from earlier days? Hard to rationalize this massive jump. 2/
Positivity also in record territory, also an incredible 12.01%, far and away the highest we& #39;ve ever had. Previous record 11.16% on Dec 3rd. This would suggest our systems are flailing/failing. 2/
Variants. What to say about variants. Yesterday the APL put out a memo saying they are no longer testing each positive for the VoC or VoI. So probably no longer a role in reporting Daily B1117%s. But for old time sake, Apr 27 1238/1863=66.4%. 4/
Hospitalizations continue to confound. Inpts maxed out on Tues at 511, and have since been bouncing up and down, now 509. Unexpected plateau, hopefully real (but don& #39;t count on it). ICU also unchanged today at 152. Only one new death. 5/
Not sure what to say folks. So much negative news in the last few days, from a lack of backbone from our leaders, to the absolutely expected continuation of our exponential growth, to the failing of our Test/Trace/Isolation systems. 6/
