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Dr. Brendan Hanley
Yukon COVID cases rise to 51
Another case of COVID-19 was confirmed Wednesday in Whitehorse, bringing the Yukon’s total known cases to 50.
Revised - Another case of COVID-19 was confirmed Thursday in Whitehorse, bringing the Yukon’s total known cases to 51.
The case is currently under investigation, the Yukon government said. It’s believed to be linked to the person’s household contact with a previous case.
There are currently 11 active cases in Yukon. Another Whitehorse case had been announced on Wednesday.
Cases 48 and 49, from Tuesday, are linked to a previous case.
Public exposure notifications are being issued for:
• Winter Long Brewing Co., which is in the Mt. Sima area, Nov. 27 between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; and
• Whiskey Jacks Pub & Grill off Wann Road in Porter Creek, Nov. 25 between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
If you are experiencing any symptoms and have been at these locations, call the COVID-19 Testing and Assessment Centre in Whitehorse at 393-3083 to arrange for testing.
Or, drop in at the drive-thru testing centre located at Centennial Motors on the Alaska Highway across from the Whitehorse airport.
You can also contact your rural community health centre.
Due to a high volume of calls, you may be required to leave a number where you can be contacted, and the testing centre staff will return your call. If you do not receive a call within 24 hours, call back.
If you are waiting for a test result, you must self-isolate until you receive your result.
If you were in contact with anyone who was at a location listed above, you are a secondary contact.
“In this situation, we ask that you monitor yourself for symptoms but you do not need to self-isolate,” said the office of Dr. Brendan Hanley, the chief medical officer of health.
If you are not notified and do not have symptoms, you may continue your usual daily activities, while following the safe six plus one (wear a mask, which became mandatory in public places on Tuesday).
Anyone who is experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms is asked to self-isolate and arrange for testing immediately.
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Comments (16)
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Are the active cases local? on Dec 7, 2020 at 11:51 am
@Charlie's Aunt - obviously there are some cases that are local. But who is to say that they weren't Yukoners (for example students) came for a visit or family went to visit them and then COVID was spread (as it seems to be people knowing each other). If they are outside of the Yukon, they would still be considered to be a Yukon resident.
What I'm wondering is if they are still accounting for Yukoners who are not in the Yukon but still residents. I would like to know the actual cases active in the Yukon.
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motive unclear on Dec 6, 2020 at 12:11 pm
Some Guy’s life is a wreck so he decides he needs a loan for his revolutionary business idea. He approaches his banker with his clever idea and requests a million dollar loan. When the banker asks for collateral he pulls a penny from the watch pocket of his old patched jeans and sets it on the desk in front of the banker expectantly.
The banker looks it over with a practiced eye and says, “you’re joking, right?”
“No Sir, I am not!” says Some Guy. “You see, it’s actually worth a million dollars. All you have to do is double it every day for about 30 days and there you are! Simple like that!”
The wise old banker furrows his brow, and says, ” all right, your loan will be deposited in your account this afternoon.
Excitedly, Some Guy checks his balance later that day and discovers his balance has indeed risen by a million bucks! Turns out the banker is a gullible fool. There are a few of them walking around out there and Some Guy just happened to hit one at his first day at work.
This story is of course, totally unrelated (s) to PCR testing for the virus which requires a doubling of the original sample up to 40 times before it is detectable and you become a case! And anyone who believes that something is so dangerous that it has to be doubled 40 times in order to even be detected by a scientist in a fully-equipped modern lab… is that banker!
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Charlie's Aunt on Dec 4, 2020 at 2:49 pm
@ Are active local, I think when local businesses are named as potential source of exposure, we can assume most cases are local. The decision to post YT folks who became ill elsewhere is from Health Canada & applies to all Provincial & Territorial Stats. Confusing but we can't blame YT for that. That reporting method also means there may be residents of other Provinces who are ill, present in YT & not reported in our stats. My concern is with numbers listed as recovered; does that mean they simply no longer shed the virus. It is mentioned almost everywhere that many are left with permanent damage. Irreversible fibrosis of lung occurs by time hospitalization is needed so what defines recovery? recovered?
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Ginger Johnson on Dec 4, 2020 at 2:26 pm
Hanley needs to write out his answers in advance and read those.
Trying to get useful information out of his blather is almost impossible
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Are the active cases local? on Dec 4, 2020 at 9:41 am
My question is if these are all active cases within the Yukon.
Remember when they were reporting cases of Yukoners when they weren't even present in the Yukon? Is that happening again or have they abandoned that kind of reporting?
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Josey Wales on Dec 4, 2020 at 7:54 am
Dang it... forgot a critical point. The wordy part is just an overview as titled, but pasted it to hopefully encourage one to go read bill C7 for yourself.
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MAID Josey reveal on Dec 4, 2020 at 7:43 am
Kinda odd the YLP is so fixated, as is their federal counterparts on "saving lives" at all costs, freedoms be damned?
In the context of public health & safety, the saving of lives...seems like the Liberals are speedily ramming bill C7 through.
C7 Josey, I have not heard anything on it?
Exactly, carry on with the fear and paranoia please, nothing to see here.
Very wordy, in the context of saving lives at all costs...but the correlating of COVID19 to a "natural foreseeable death" to aid in fear & freak-out is very revealing to anyone paying attention. HENCE tainted data, tomfoolery/gaslighting call it what you will.
Star, participants please humor me as it truly is in everyone's interest to be informed ...
Bill C7
Overview
Medical assistance in dying (MAID) involves a number of competing interests and societal values. The interests and values that Bill C-7 seeks to balance include the autonomy of individuals who are eligible to receive MAID, the protection of vulnerable persons from being induced to end their lives and the need to address suicide as a public health issue. The particular balance struck by Bill C-7, which differs from that under the existing law, was informed by the Quebec Superior Court decision in Truchon v. Canada (2019), Canadian and international evidence, and by recent consultations on MAID in Canada.
Under the existing law, individuals who seek medical assistance in dying must satisfy all of the eligibility criteria set out in subsections 241.2(1) and 241.2(2) of the Criminal Code. In particular, they must be 18 years of age or older, capable to make decisions with respect to their health and eligible for health services funded by the federal government, a province or a territory. They must make a voluntary request for MAID that is not the result of external pressure and must give informed consent, after having been informed of the means available to relieve their suffering. Finally, they must have a grievous and irremediable medical condition, as defined in subsection 241.2(2). A person with a grievous and irremediable medical condition is someone who has a serious and incurable illness, disease, or disability, who is in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability, who is experiencing enduring and intolerable suffering that cannot be relieved under conditions acceptable to them, and whose natural death has become reasonably foreseeable.
Spin masters do your thing, what a effin mess.
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Josey Wales on Dec 4, 2020 at 7:02 am
Star, participants...anyone know where "our" Kung Flu Internment camp is?
Of course the overlords have a different name for them, but they are being funded in every province and territory so they must exist.
Comi lite sycophants and sheeple will scold my choice of words, though, I give nary a rats ass.
Good day Comrades, clic clic
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Wilf Carter on Dec 4, 2020 at 12:25 am
Our MP Bagnell thinks it is better to invest in a ski hill than housing people or a vaccine for CV19. Wow great choice liberals.
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Josey Wales on Dec 3, 2020 at 6:54 pm
Bingo...yeah but the change of language adds to the uncertainty and adds the FEAR.
As does the global tainted, COVID19 associated but "deemed" Kung Flu fatal, data...
It is the desired effect, fear is a great motivator. Worked great for Stalin and that crazy Austrian...till the world grew a set. I will leave "the Chairman" outta this collection of tyrants to avoid being a racist...mmmMkay?
Folks will trip over each other giving it all away for some "safety" via the state.
We now live in a full blown dictatorship complete with "mandates" ever so from unelected 'Crats.
A mandate by definition is an official state order, since I am not North Korean I do not follow dictates, nor dictators.
Canada is a complete mess, and the YLP & CLP can just PUCK right off.
Roxham Road still going strong? How goes the mental illness crisis with folks not certain of their junk? Jokers...the whole lot, yes you too, Doc/Premier/Lord & Savior/destroyers of freedom.
My freedoms do not end where another's fears begin.
OJW PSA Obesity kills 500,000 people who claim to be Canadian each year.
mic drop...
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Uplander on Dec 3, 2020 at 6:39 pm
Total is now 11 active cases...Less than what we had in April.
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Mick on Dec 3, 2020 at 6:27 pm
@Bingo, or should I say Thomas
People in the medical and STEM world actually use numbers to produce stats and those stats can be used to direct public monies and programs into areas of need.
CMOs use ‘case numbers’ to track the individual over time as they are anonymized. If you read beyond the headlines, you’ll see Handley reference them: Case 48 and 49, from Tuesday, are linked to a previous case.
In our case with *gasp* 50 known infections and 1 death that puts COVID mortality in the Yukon at 2%, but hold onto your lunch pail, because 20 of those 50 case you refuse to acknowledge are still active and have yet to run their course. Another death in those numbers would spike us up to 4% mortality.
Now, this should give you a bit of relief but with a small sample of 40,000 those stats can look a tad skewed but reset assured people are getting sick and dying from this right here in the Yukon and all around the world. Also of note those folks who have recovered. ie lived, have ongoing and often debilitating health issues.
In closing you don’t have to understand the numbers or even make an effort to. The deciders and those who do understand them like all the data as it shows the full picture.
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Jimbo on Dec 3, 2020 at 6:08 pm
@Bingo “active” cases mean absolutely nothing if they don’t test asymptotic people, the CDC is saying Approx. 80 of people have mild to no symptoms so take that 50 number and add 80%. That’s approx our current covid cases
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SheepChaser on Dec 3, 2020 at 5:53 pm
Let me be absolutely clear on this count...
If the Yukon follows Manitoba and decides vaccination priority based on racial background, then social cohesion is dead. It will break the backbone of working Canadians if those who do not contribute to the tax base get priority for vaccination. This is a nation state, not a dream state. Reality is ugly and it’s about time for a reminder of the truth of capitalism. You are only worth what you contribute!!!
I hope Yukon politicians are up to the task of prioritizing healthcare professionals, followed by public service infrastructure employees (education, emergency services, transport, retail in that order), followed by a lottery system based on birthdate.
Seriously Yukon leaders, if you even consider making vaccine access a race issue then I’ll take up arms myself shortly thereafter. And I’ll happily defend that in court. Come get me if you want to make an example, but the last place you want to see someone as smart as me is in a court of law. That much we can be sure of.
The workers who need it, followed by a lottery. Anything else is grossly corrupt.
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TheHammer on Dec 3, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Bingo@ Your opinion is a narrow view. We need the bigger picture to understand the extent of the contagion and the time frame for the spread. Taking action to contain the spread is paramount.
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Bingo on Dec 3, 2020 at 3:47 pm
I gather the “ headlines” on Monday will read something like....Number of COVID cases reaches 51. The total is irrelevant it’s the active cases that we should be concerned with.