On March 1st, there were 71 active cases<\/a>; on March 24th Island Health reported 17<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cropped image from BC Centre for Disease Control map of Local Health Areas for the week of March 14 \u2013 20, 2021.<\/p><\/div>\n Is this a lull, before another wave hits North Island? Or a return to normalcy?<\/p>\n There is one region that is unaffected. The epi-Week report for the week ending on Saturday March 20th shows 18 cases in the\u00a0Greater Campbell River Health Area<\/a>, the same number as last week.<\/p>\n There are two specific reports.<\/p>\n On March 12th, the Quadra Island Medical Clinic posted<\/a>\u00a0a notice that \u201cToday Public Health have informed us of positive cases of Covid-19 on Quadra Island.\u201d*<\/p>\n On March 18th, Penfield Elementary in Campbell River<\/a>\u00a0alerted parents that \u201ca member of the school community has tested positive for COVID 19. . They are isolating and are being followed by Island Health. Dates of potential exposure in the school community occurred: March 15, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n Vaccinations for \u00a0Indigenous\u00a0Quadra Island<\/a>\u00a0residents aged 65+ and non-Indigenous people aged 80+, started Monday.<\/p>\n The entire adult population of Read Island is eligible to receive vaccinations on March 31.<\/p>\n The whole island vaccination on\u00a0Cortes Island<\/a>\u00a0start this morning, at\u00a0Gorge Hall<\/a>,\u00a0 and will continue until Saturday.<\/p>\n In light of recent media attention, the\u00a0Cortes Medical Clinic posted some answers about COVID vaccines on the Tideline<\/a>. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n \u201cHealth Canada has determined that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine meets the stringent, safety, efficacy and quality requirements for use in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBoth the\u00a0Pfizer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Moderna<\/a>\u00a0vaccines are similar in their effectiveness in preventing COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBoth Pfizer and Moderna vaccine products require two does for the series. You will be contacted by a public health professional to schedule your second dose.\u201d<\/p>\n In the letter it says this will take place after 35-42 days, but this has been\u00a0amended to 4 months<\/a>.<\/p>\n The review for\u00a0AstraZeneca<\/a>\u00a0is not yet complete.<\/p>\n There is much more, including an explanation of how the vaccines work, in the letter.<\/p>\n By Roy L Hales While the numbers have reached\u00a0heights not seen since the beginning of this year\u00a0across the province,\u00a0COVID\u00a0is retreating in North Vancouver Island. On March 1st, there were 71 active cases; on March 24th Island Health reported 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":49314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218],"tags":[7068],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49307"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=49307"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=49307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cropped](\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-4.41.49-AM.png\")
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Vaccinations: Quadra, Read & Cortes Islands<\/h2>\n
Answers about vaccines<\/h2>\n
Links of interest:<\/h2>\n
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