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New daily covid cases, Southern Health

New daily covid cases, Southern Health

naturelover
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naturelover
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New daily covid cases, Southern Health
12/2/2021 at 4:10 PM

I faithfully check out RHA site daily for the number of new cases through out Manitoba:
What I can't comphrend is why the Southern Health region surpases every other region, daily, including Wpg. I could be wrong, but wouldn't Wpg. have a larger population then the Southern Region ?
Any thoughts ?
Curious.

Edited by naturelover, 2021-12-02 16:22:06
Giddyup
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Giddyup
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southern
12/2/2021 at 4:41 PM

Because they have a ridiculously low vaccination rate in the Southern Health District. Many people there do not believe in covid or hiding behind their bibles and are blatantly not abiding by the mask mandate or other public health orders. They are sending their kids to school day in and day out with symptoms and they’re not getting tested. It’s a gong show down there.
Adam

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Adam
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Southern
12/2/2021 at 5:43 PM

Some areas of Southern are worse off than others. If you have a few minutes, have a read of the link below for a better idea of just how odd the rails things have gotten in Winkler …
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-a-manitoba-town-divided-on-covid-19-vaccines-tries-to-heal-itself-with/

The province has been criticized for substandard enforcement in the area. Eg this from former Winnipeg Mayor…
The violations concentrated in southern Manitoba need a stronger response in both enforcement and restrictions. If not done a regional problem will become a provincial problem causing loss of life and ICU overloads. https://t.co/aLLf43Zy0A
— Glen Murray (@Glen4Climate) November 29, 2021
when the topic is brought up in questioning of provincial officials the answers seem to often dance around pointing the finger at any one area. Can't decide if the reason might be political or legal?
Abbysmum
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Abbysmum
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Numbers
12/2/2021 at 7:00 PM

And as high as the numbers are, they are almost certainly an under-representation as many people in that region avoid testing.

Dr. Roussin has repeatedly said that more than half of ICU admissions (and statistically, the majority if ICU patients have been from Southern) don't have their first Covid test until they are admitted.

Anecdotally, I'm hearing that some people are basically avoiding testing and sending their kids to school etc. It's only when a kid in a family that actually follows public health orders get sick and gets tested that it's "discovered". Some school in the region have had dozens of cases, but they're not "school transmissions" because they can't link them.

I have zero proof to offer, but frankly makes absolute sense in the context of the data.
Home Slice
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Home Slice
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Posts: 1360

Southern Covid
12/2/2021 at 9:49 PM

The worst part about what these people are doing is filling up hospital beds so that regularly scheduled surgeries and procedures get pushed down the waiting list to the point that some of them get cancelled altogether. In some cases people will die because of this. If they don’t believe in Covid and then get it then they shouldn’t be running to the hospitals.
naturelover
Joined: Apr 2021
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naturelover
Joined: Apr 2021
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Suggest looking back,
12/2/2021 at 11:25 PM

A lockdown , like the time Wpg. was in lockdown and we weren't, ( and it worked to a degree ) along with stricter enforcement, would perhaps lower the new cases and contain the spread somewhat.
If the province was able to enforce lockdown in one region at one time, why not do it again to the region with the highest cases .
Quite straight forward.
Something is not sitting right.
And just not fair to the rest of the provence.
Just my opinion.
thecdnmole
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thecdnmole
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North Norfolk
12/3/2021 at 10:51 AM

It's not just the Morden-Winkler-Steinbach area, North Norfolk municipality only has 58.5% vaccine uptake!