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COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North)

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

In March 2020 the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) stated: "The deadly flu outbreak of 1918-19 is often called the ‘forgotten pandemic.’ Our responsibility now is to ensure the lessons of COVID-19 are not forgotten. Our collective efforts to capture and preserve the essential online elements of this unprecedented event are critical." (CARL-ABRC). The COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North) Web Archive reflects community experiences and responses to the pandemic in the region served by Vancouver Island University, documenting and supporting diverse aspects of scholarly inquiry, creativity, and community life. The Web Archive is intended to provide a body of information that will support scholarship, creativity, and study. Information rights related to web archiving include considerations of copyright and fair dealing, and of individual and community privacy. The following are among principles and resources that guide web archiving decisions: Ethics of care, for example in VIU Library’s Pledge to our user communities; OCAP® principles, and awareness of relationality and accountability to Indigenous communities, and potential impacts related to web archiving; Good practice and expert advice, emerging and accessed through communities of practice, e.g. the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC); and VIU Library, Evolution of Physical Collections: 2017-2021 VIU Library, Special Collections Guidelines (Under review 2020). Web archives are informed by available capture technologies and also by affordances of the content source; not all websites can be successfully crawled or rendered, and quality of archived versions varies. This project is supported by VIU's Special Funding for COVID-19 research projects and carried out in coordination with the University of Victoria’s COVID-19 Collection and the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition. Contact us at research.help@viu.ca with questions or for more information about content included in the Web Archive. [Working description 2021 April 6]

Subject:   Spontaneous Events Society & Culture Science & Health COVID-19 (Disease) Vancouver Island

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Title: New LifeLabs antibody test announced for British Columbians | Globalnews.ca

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/7484886/new-lifelabs-antibody-test-bc/

Description: For British Columbians who have been feeling under the weather over the last few months but were never tested for COVID-19, there’s now a way to find out if they’ve had the novel coronavirus.

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Subject:   LifeLabs

Title: Natural immunity: The elephant in the room | Kim Goldberg

URL: https://kimgoldbergx1.substack.com/p/natural-immunity-the-elephant-in/

Description: On New Year’s Day, I woke to some extraordinary news in my inbox. In fact, it is probably the best news I have received in this whole two-year trauma fest of case counts and spike protein videos. I learned I now have natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2.

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Subject:   Vaccinations Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Pelech, Steven,  LifeLabs ,  BC Vaccine Card Kulldorff, Martin Kinexus Bioinformatics

Title: Which COVID-19 test should you take? | LifeLabs

URL: https://lifelabs.azureedge.net/lifelabs-wp-cdn/2020/10/LifeLabs-Antibody-Infographic.pdf

Description: LifeLabs offers two options of COVID-19 tests that identify if individuals are currently infected or may have been infected in the past with the virus.

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Subject:   LifeLabs

Title: Capital Daily newsletter: January 12, 2022 | Capital Daily

URL: https://overstory.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=30c8e1ca872524fbf7ea5c519ca397ee.1602&s=1d35845a9f6666ff6bba842e22701ee8

Description: Today we are looking at more of the impacts of the ongoing COVID case surge. Businesses and service providers are struggling to stay fully operational due to a lack of healthy and available staff. At the same time, many workers who are healthy enough to work in person fear they will not remain that way due to a lack of adequate protections. Below, we look at local examples of this: more closures of LifeLabs testing centres, and concerns from regional district and childcare workers.

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Subject:   Capital Regional District Canadian Union of Public Employees | Local 1978 Nightingale Preschool and Junior Kindergarten Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Brown, Catriona Early Childhood Educators of BC,  LifeLabs ,  Island Health Saanich Peninsula Hospital Oyster Harbour Seniors Community Park Place Seniors Living Paxlovid Molnupiravir Henry, Bonnie Day Care Centres

Title: Provincial lab medicine services dashboard by health authority | November 26, 2021 | Provincial Health Services Authority

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E05xYeNVkAAog7S?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Description: Bob Mackin on Twitter: "They have many official sources of data. It's easy enough for their consumption (and, frankly, yours too). Like this @BCCDC dashboard on #coronavirus testing data from November 2020. I recently received a copy inadvertently via FOI. #bcpoli #cdnfoi"

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Subject:   Provincial Health Services Authority Fraser Health Interior Health Vancouver Coastal Health Island Health Providence Health Care Northern Health BC Centre for Disease Control,  LifeLabs ,  BC Children's Hospital BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre

Title: Early location closure | LifeLabs

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA9al_mUUAsGa1R?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Mayana C. Slobodian on Twitter: "Hate to beat a dying medical system, but the lab crisis in Victoria is intensifying. @VanIslandHealth relies on the inadequate & under-staffed @LifeLabs. Appts are booked for weeks, labs close without warning, ECG machines are broken. Can it get worse? @brish_ti @CBContheisland"

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Subject:   LifeLabs

Title: [Estimated wait times for Victoria LifeLabs locations]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA9al_pUcAcuH6Z?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Mayana C. Slobodian on Twitter: "Hate to beat a dying medical system, but the lab crisis in Victoria is intensifying. @VanIslandHealth relies on the inadequate & under-staffed @LifeLabs. Appts are booked for weeks, labs close without warning, ECG machines are broken. Can it get worse? @brish_ti @CBContheisland"

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Subject:   LifeLabs

Title: [Excerpt:] 1,550 BCGEU members launch job action against LifeLabs | October 22, 2021 | British Columbia General Employees' Union

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCU4f1EXIAArRTS?format=png&name=small

Description: LizaYuzda on Twitter: "Unionized @LifeLabsworkers starting job action. The @bcgeu members starting with rally Saturday then pickets Monday, November 1st. (*corrected tweet for date - again) #bcpoli @CityNewsVAN"

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Subject:   British Columbia General Employees' Union,  LifeLabs ,  Labour Disputes

Title: "Great crowd coming together for the LifeLabs job action rally!" | British Columbia Government and Service Employees' Union

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCaZ9FPWQAQik_6?format=jpg&name=small

Description: BCGEU on Twitter: "Great crowd coming together for the LifeLabs Job Action Rally!"

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Subject:   British Columbia Government and Service Employees' Union,  LifeLabs ,  Labour Disputes

Title: [Picket signs at LifeLabs job action rally] | British Columbia General Employees' Union

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCadK1hWUAQeWaV?format=jpg&name=small

Description: BCGEU on Twitter: "And such great signs!"

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Subject:   British Columbia General Employees' Union,  LifeLabs ,  Labour Disputes

Title: [Image 1:] Changes to patient service centre hours and temporary closures in BC | LifeLabs

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI3lln2UYAA0b0u?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Salim Jiwa on Twitter: "#bcpoli NEW - Lifelabs temporarily closing 11 locations and adjusting hours as staff get infected! Wow!"

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Subject:   LifeLabs ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: [Image 2:] Changes to patient service centre hours and temporary closures in BC | LifeLabs

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI3lln2VgAApYry?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Salim Jiwa on Twitter: "#bcpoli NEW - Lifelabs temporarily closing 11 locations and adjusting hours as staff get infected! Wow!"

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Subject:   LifeLabs ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: [Lack of availability at Greater Victoria LifeLabs locations]

URL: https://twitter.com/JRossfamilymed/status/1488206008442781696/

Description: Jennifer Ross on Twitter: "Labs today either closed, appt only (booking weeks away) or a minimum 2-3 hour wait …"

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Subject:   LifeLabs

Title: [Frustrations with booking a LifeLabs appointment in Nanaimo]

URL: https://twitter.com/KimPigSquash/status/1449455340290916352/

Description: Kim Goldberg on Twitter: "I went to use SaveMySpot for a LifeLabs visit today at either of the 2 LifeLabs open in #Nanaimo on Saturday. Port Place is CLOSED. No reason stated but I'm gonna guess staff shortage. North Town has full waitlist, even though not closing for 3 hrs. Other sites closed on Saturday"

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Subject:   LifeLabs

Title: [Difficulties booking an appointment at LifeLabs in Nanaimo]

URL: https://twitter.com/KimPigSquash/status/1450561497222955010/

Description: Kim Goldberg on Twitter: "It's 1:30 pm & once again I waited TOO LONG to do a SaveMySpot for LifeLabs #Nanaimo today. Must get on this in morning! Only 2 of the 5 LLs in Nanaimo will do SaveMySpot anymore. 2 others require appt (which is 2 weeks!) And the 5th (Southgate) is closed until Jan 4th 2022! wtf?"

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Subject:   LifeLabs

Title: [Comment on masks]

URL: https://twitter.com/TorranceCoste/status/1527334747159945220/

Description: Torrance Coste on Twitter: "Nothing like a quick visit to a place where the rules are made by doctors and frontline healthcare workers to remind you that the rules for everywhere else are made by our hollow, self-serving political class."

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Subject:   LifeLabs

Title: Changes to patient service centre hours and temporary closures in BC | LifeLabs

URL: https://twitter.com/brish_ti/status/1481328600037003265/

Description: Brishti Basu on Twitter: "Lots of #COVID19BC news in the @CapitalDailyVic newsletter this morning. LifeLabs has closed 11 more BC clinics, include 2 in #yyj, until Jan 23, citing significant staff shortages. They're also shortening hours at several other clinics, including 2 in Greater Victoria."

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Subject:   LifeLabs

Title: LifeLabs union workers issue 72-hour strike notice | CityNews

URL: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2021/10/20/lifelabs-union-workers-strike-notice/

Description: Union workers at LifeLabs have issued 72-hour strike notice, saying there are still outstanding issues after “several months of negotiations, 30 days at the bargaining table, and eight days of mediation.”

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Subject:   LifeLabs ,  British Columbia General Employees' Union Smith, Stephanie Labour Disputes

Title: LifeLabs workers reach tentative agreement after day of labour action | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6222728

Description: The B.C. General Employees' Union, which represents LifeLabs workers, said a tentative agreement had been reached with the company early Sunday.

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Subject:   LifeLabs ,  Smith, Stephanie Labour Disputes British Columbia General Employees' Union

Title: LifeLabs 'staffing challenges' leads to cancelled appointments, sudden closure of multiple facilities in Greater Victoria | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/lifelabs-staffing-challenges-leads-to-cancelled-appointments-sudden-closure-of-multiple-facilities-in-greater-victoria-897615/

Description: The ongoing labour shortage has found another victim as the popular medical lab testing company is struggling to keep up with demand. Kevin Charach has more on how sudden closures and cancelled appointments are impacting residents in the Greater Victoria area.

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Subject:   LifeLabs ,  Essa, Noren

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