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OUTBREAK MANAGED – Precautions are being taken at Whistle Bend Place in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak.
COVID outbreak declared at Whistle Bend Place
The latest COVID-19 numbers from the Yukon government and public health officials are promising.
The latest COVID-19 numbers from the Yukon government and public health officials are promising.
According to the numbers, posted on the COVID-19 dashboard late Tuesday afternoon, there were 64 active cases and 15 new cases over the Easter weekend.
The test positivity rate remains high at 37.1 per cent.
Meanwhile, an outbreak had been declared at the Whistle Bend Place continuing care centre. That was done “following the identification of several linked cases,” according to a news release.
“Routine outbreak management procedures have been put in place to keep staff and residents safe,” it said.
“Whistle Bend Place is working closely with the (office of the chief medical officer of health) and Yukon Communicable Disease Control to contain the outbreak and ensure infection prevention and control practices are followed. Further testing, investigation and contact tracing is currently underway.”
All in-person visits to the affected house are suspended until the outbreak is declared over and virtual visits will be supported. Exceptions are being made for end-of-life visits.
The unaffected houses at Whistle Bend Place remain open to visitors.
Visitors must be fully vaccinated and follow the infection control measures in place in all long-term care homes, including:
•visiting only one home per day;
•answering screening questions when entering;
•wearing the provided medical-grade masks at all times in the care home;
•proceeding directly to and from the resident’s room and confining visits to the room, unless going for a walk outdoors or gathering in a previously booked room; and
•staying home if sick, even if symptoms are mild.
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Comments (23)
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Roy on Apr 25, 2022 at 9:56 pm
Laughing out loud here. The narcissism coupled with Dunning Kruger effect is a potent but comical combination.
It’s really too bad you guys aren’t writing for the newspaper instead of playing semantics or running the hospital - all our problems would be fixed so quickly. Here we have posters in the basement of a D-list newspaper telling us they understand respirology better than respirologists…amazing!
If you’re in the top 1% of intensivists please let me take this opportunity to thank you for slumming here just to educate us. Let us know when Nobel calls.
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DL on Apr 25, 2022 at 3:01 pm
Must read: "The Evaporating Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines as Shown by the Newest Ontario Government Data"
https://c2cjournal.ca/2022/04/the-evaporating-effectiveness-of-covid-19-vaccines-as-shown-by-the-newest-ontario-government-data/?fbclid=IwAR33u28Ff6EKflUoSFzxBcUACrFfIg4r347StF75RpWJbJgqzeaShOdIg2Y
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Groucho d'North on Apr 25, 2022 at 10:24 am
I don't believe a blood donating service is available here in the Yukon. I was told some years ago our population is too small to warrant the investment of all the apparatus to collect, type, seperate and store blood and plasma. It is much more economical and effective to recieve blood from Vancouver or Edmonton. But things change without the public being informed, so who knows what the current situation really is?
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Biontech: Is the party over? on Apr 25, 2022 at 9:16 am
With the exception of China, the corona measures are being lifted worldwide. The Biontech share suffers from this, but also from the increasingly frequent side effects of vaccinations - the group itself admits this.
According to Biontech, it is working on corona vaccines that should also work against Covid mutations. Despite this, Biontech had to admit before the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the effectiveness of its current corona vaccine may not be sufficient for permanent regulatory approval: "We may not be able to demonstrate sufficient effectiveness or safety of our COVID-19 vaccine and/or variant-specific formulations to obtain permanent regulatory approval in the United States, United Kingdom, European Union or other countries where the vaccine has been approved for emergency use or conditional marketing approval.”
Biontech even refers to the side effects in its statement for the SEC and stated that serious adverse events could occur in its clinical studies or even after receiving regulatory approval. In addition, the durability of the immune response has not yet been proven in clinical studies. BioNTech also cannot guarantee that newly discovered or developed security problems will not occur.
Biontech 's conclusion is therefore cautious: "The subsequent discovery of previously undetected problems could negatively affect the commercial sale of the product, lead to restrictions on the product or lead to the product being withdrawn from the market."
https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/15334325-aktien-biontech-party-vorbei
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The Science on Apr 25, 2022 at 12:06 am
@Roy
Most respiratory therapists themselves are incapable of doing the high end work. It is a very limited hang out of RTs and pulmonologists that understand Eagans fundamentals of respiratory care. For decades people in hospitals simply followed long held and established vent and respiratory therapy protocols. They don't know why, or what they are doing. The doctor just knows to turn PEEP to help this, decrease VT for that, in regards to ABG and real-time results. Very few in the field can tell you the indications and contraindictions of PEEP. I hope that clarifies things a bit, thank you for commenting.
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Bad Roy’s, Bad Roy’s, whatchya gonna do when they come for you… on Apr 24, 2022 at 9:25 pm
To - Roy on Apr 24, 2022 at 1:15 pm:
Shhh… Your emotionalism is interfering with your ability to make sense. Is your respondent “blatantly wrong” or are they simply under a misapprehension? It’s a clumsy juxtaposition at best. At worst it is a stinging indictment of our education system. Writing this bad however is a possible indication of executive dysfunction. Check your sugars, thyroid, O2 levels etc? Perhaps a symptom of depression?
Stop the attacks my friend. Read, consider, question, and clarify. Share your thoughts and insights but don’t come to incite, fight, and assert your rights (double entendre intended).
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Roy on Apr 24, 2022 at 1:15 pm
@The Science
100% of your post is either blatantly wrong or at least evidence of your complete misunderstanding of this topic.
Your post displays the knowledge level I’d expect a janitor in an ER would get from hanging around watching. A first year nursing student could write a more factual description of what happens with intubation and the use of ventilators.
If you want more info into how you got it all so wrong look up “Dunning Kruger”
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The Science on Apr 23, 2022 at 9:23 am
The vaccinated have worse blood problems than the unvaccinated.
The vent protocols changed with covid19. They don't follow the textbook well studied and established protocols for vent weaning and management anymore. They intubate you, then place you on vent settings that will help oxygenate you but render your lungs cooked. I could go on, but basically covid19 was to change our hospitals into gulags. Mission accomplished. Why are no health are workers speaking out you ask? They are. By the thousands. Top ER doctor Lorna M. Breen committed suicide after freaking out about the protocols that made it impossible for her to help people. 1/4 of healthcare employees are trying to find a different career. Half of them are sticking with it for the vanity. The other 1/4 are experiencing hardcore cognitive dissonance. Doctors for the most part are doing what they always do. They stopped caring before they even made it out of school.
So when a protocol comes out changing how we wean and use vent settings, nobody is aware of what is going on, and people just think covid harms your lungs. People can't breath because they are having blood problems that also compromise their lungs. Yes, if left untreated it gets wicked on a chest x ray. But again, we stopped treating these problems with covid protocols. Before covid, someone came into the ER in resp distress they might be turned around with an hour long aerosol treatment (very important for combating pneumonia). But now, we don't give aerosol txs, we give them an inhaler which is proven to be useless in the clinical setting.
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Charlie's Aunt on Apr 22, 2022 at 10:25 pm
@ DL, I read yesterday of a scientific study that shows even a mild case of Covid can shrink a person's brain. Sorry, but I have to ask, have you had Covid?
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A+ on Apr 22, 2022 at 4:13 pm
I’m triple vaxxed and donated blood yesterday.
Quit making ‘science’ up and linking to rogue websites.
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Juniper Jackson on Apr 22, 2022 at 3:52 pm
0, Juniper, and fingers crossed: Thanks for your comment. My comment was made to try and assess how dangerous the outbreak is. Every patient at Whistle Bend is vulnerable. A bad cold would likely take out some of them. So, how many have passed from covid? No matter how many lockdowns, how tight the measures, this is the 3rd outbreak. How successful are the measures in place? Meanwhile, many people there live for their visitors and family.
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DL on Apr 22, 2022 at 1:03 pm
Speaking of blood, embalmers have noted strange blood clots from the bodies of deceased people who had received the covax. When will this be investigated by health authorities?
https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2022/04/this-is-not-normal-embalmer-releases-footage-of-unbelievable-blood-clots-2686194.html
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Mitch Holder on Apr 22, 2022 at 12:07 pm
@ Fingers crossed - Your perception of Juniper's question and your opinion are not a pre-requisite of her question.
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American Red Cross admits vaxxed blood is unusable on Apr 21, 2022 at 7:47 pm
@Roy
Read it again. They can donate their blood and the blood gets tested, but thrown in the garbage because it can't be used to treat covid infected patients. If you don't believe me you can call the Red Cross yourself and ask them the same question. They don't want your blood Roy! They only want mine! I hope you won't be needing any blood transfusions any time soon, there's a pretty big shortage!
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Roy on Apr 21, 2022 at 3:34 pm
@red cross
There is zero restrictions for covid vaccinated people donating blood.
80% of North Americans have received a covid vaccine - and you think that they cannot donate?
You’re delusional. Quit spreading your fever dream BS.
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Jeff Bikaboom on Apr 21, 2022 at 2:03 pm
"All in-person visits to the affected house are suspended until the outbreak is declared over. Exceptions are being made for end-of-life visits."
"Visitors must be fully vaccinated and follow the infection control measures in place in all long-term care homes"
So no visitors unless for a person on their death bed, and the visitor must be vaccinated plus wear a mask.
So what is the logic here for banning healthy unvaccinated people? Is it to prevent the visitor from giving covid to the person about to die, even though the visitor has no symptoms, and is wearing a medical grade mask, and the person they are visiting is likely quadruple vaxxed, and about to die?
The whole situation comes across as a demented power trip. The word sadism sums it up pretty well. Of course if someone can shed some light on a legitimate reason for these extreme measures, I am all ears.
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Nell Fenwick on Apr 21, 2022 at 12:38 pm
Interview an actuary already. That way you might get some honest Covid data.
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American Red Cross admits vaxxed blood is unusable on Apr 21, 2022 at 10:00 am
The Red Cross blames "complex system updates" as the reason why they can't use vaxxed blood. THOUSANDS of people calling them out on blatantly lying by telling the woman who asked "No, that's not true" and then explaining that it technically is true. No response from the Red Cross; they're just making some slide tweets about Ukraine.
Too late vaxxies, no refunds. You won't be getting a single drop of my pure untainted blood!
https://twitter.com/RedCross/status/1516567974747979785
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DL on Apr 21, 2022 at 3:26 am
This is probably the most covaxed long-term care facility. For months now, all staff AND visitors had to be fully vaxed to enter the place. However, 'outbreaks' are ongoing. We need some serious and honest analysis of the claim that the covax helps reduce transmission, because in reality it doesn't look like that at all.
The official claim by the feds and YG that the covax is 'safe and effective' is sounding more like BS every day. They never talk about the covax serious adverse effects, one of which is that it makes the vaxed more susceptible to variants. Look at the data from the YG dashboard, and from other countries. Our highly paid CMO owes us honest reporting.
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Archie on Apr 21, 2022 at 12:46 am
Well the obvious answer is to further restrict movement, increase people's dependence on government via manufactured scarcity, and implement a social credit/wrongthink monitoring system. That will help cases go down.
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0,Juniper, and fingers crossed on Apr 20, 2022 at 6:17 pm
The folks here are the most at risk, Juniper, as you well know. I don't think your question was sincere or honest, not sure what your point is. The staff at Thompson Centre, Copper Ridge Place and Whistlebend Place are doing everything they can to keep the residents safe, while still having them live as normally as possible.
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Juniper Jackson on Apr 20, 2022 at 4:22 pm
Sorry to hear this. How many have passed away?
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Matthew on Apr 20, 2022 at 4:13 pm
So, I'm losing count.. is this the 2nd or 3rd outbreak at this facility, while EVERYONE is vaxxed..
Outbreaks as follows
So that's Hospital - 1
Copper Ridge Place - 2