B.C. Centre for Disease Control research also suggests province’s true infection rate is about eight times the rate based on reported cases
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Less than 1 per cent of British Columbians were infected with COVID-19 during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study by researchers at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
The study also suggests the province’s true infection rate is about eight times the rate based on reported cases, providing a glimpse of how much virus was in the community and potentially spreading undetected as public health strategies were put in place. Timothy Evans, a member of the task force and director of McGill University’s school of population and global health in Montreal, said the B.C. survey indicates the province’s deft management of the first wave of the pandemic resulted in very low exposure across its population.
Prabhat Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, said the sample size of the B.C. survey was relatively small, with only 20 individuals showing exposure to COVID-19.
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