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BCCDC releases data on K-12 COVID-19 impacts

The BC Centre for Disease Control’s COVID-19 data was updated to show the virus’s impact on children.

Dr. Bonnie Henry noted that this is especially helpful data to show how kids going back to school has affected positivity rates across BC.

“We look at the age, we look at the geography, as well as what’s happening in the communities around those schools.”

Henry added that Northern Health continues to show high rates in general, and this was part of the data used to implement more restrictions for the region.

She said that besides vaccination, testing has helped mitigate the spread of the virus, especially in school children.

“Across the board, we had an increase in rates of testing in this age group, and we had a steady decrease in the percent positivity. So it is telling us that we’re looking for this in younger people, and we’re finding it, and those rates have now come down.”

The new data shows there was a spike in cases once school started, but the rate has been going down steadily.

Data also breaks down how many children have been hospitalized since January of last year.

A link to the BCCDC Public Health Communicable Disease Guidance for K-12 Schools is also provided in the data.

Case rates and hospitalization rates broken down into charts by all age groups, local health areas, and vaccination status can be found on the BCCDC COVID-19 Surveillance Dashboard.

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