A short thread looking at some of the more localized data we got into #COVID19 cases in Metro Vancouver last month.

Join me through a quick journey of anxiety and numbers!

Unlike most places in Canada, B.C. only gives information by "local health region" for #COVID19 cases on a monthly basis, two weeks after the month in question.

Because reasons.

But here's what October showed us.

Interestingly, Vancouver is broken up into 6 separate health regions (we'll get to that later), while every other area in the Lower Mainland is fairly straightforward.

But if you lump everything in Vancouver together, the degree to which Surrey is struggling becomes very stark.

Pretty much every municipality in the Lower Mainland saw between 1 and 2 people out of 1000 contract #COVID19 in October.

Except Richmond (around .6) and Surrey (around 4.4) https://infogram.com/covid-october-1hke608o05v0345?live

But back to Vancouver, and its six local health areas.

They have weird names that are not publicized, and people sometimes ask me about their boundaries — so here they are.

These (mostly) connect with traditional neighbourhood boundaries in Vancouver, except "Centre North" includes Gastown and the Downtown Eastside.

We've heard anecdotal evidence in the past two months of a #COVID19 surge in the DTES, and the numbers seem to support that.

Here's a rudimentary heat map of #COVID19 cases per capita in Vancouver in October, and the degree to which cases are centred in the poorest neighbourhoods is quite stark

If you live in Shaughnessy or Kerrisdale, #COVID19 transmission in October was about the same as Richmond.

If you lived in Strathcona or the DTES, transmission was about the same as Surrey.

There's not much more that can be said at this point, because again, the B.C. government doesn't believe in providing this data in timely or hyperlocal fashion.

But hopefully it provides a bit of extra context of where we were.