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Nov 9, 2023 · Gasoline prices, measured month-over-month, rose 12.0%, the largest monthly increase since oil prices began to recover following lockdowns in the early stages of the pandemic. Excluding gasoline, annual consumer price growth was 6.3% in May, up from 5.8% in April.
Aug 30, 2022 · From March 2020 to December 2021, there was an 11% excess mortality rate, corresponding to an average of 265 monthly excess deaths (maximum >30%). COVID-19-related deaths ( n =3202) accounted for 54.9% of total excess deaths ( n =5833) that occurred in the 22-month period.
- 10.1016/j.ijregi.2022.08.011
- 2022/12
- IJID Reg. 2022 Dec; 5: 62-67.
Natural gas prices in western Canada rose significantly in the fall of 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. These high prices sustained Canadian natural gas production through the first half of 2020 at levels similar to 2019.
- New Cases
- Vaccinations
- New Variants
- New Cases by Health Zone
- Hospitalizations
- Deaths
- Active and Recovered Cases
- How Testing Has Changed Over Time
- Age of Patients
These are the figures that tend to be front and centre in the daily updates about COVID-19. There are some issues with relying on new-case data, alone, as the number of cases you detect is related to the amount of testing you do and who you're testing (more on that in a moment). But the advantage of looking at new cases is that they tend to be a le...
Vaccinations continue to roll out to more and more Albertans, but the pace of immunization has ebbed and flowed along with the supply of vaccine arriving from manufacturers to the federal government, which then distributes them to Alberta. This next chart shows vaccination progress in terms of the total number of doses distributed to Alberta (the d...
In early 2021, Alberta Health started reporting more data on new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19. Two variants of particular concern are known as alpha or B117 (which originated in the United Kingdom) and Beta or B1351 (which originated in South Africa.) A variant known as Gamma or P1 (which originated in Brazil) was later added to this ...
Alberta Health breaks the province down into five broad health zones: South, Calgary, Central, Edmonton and North. (The names are pretty self-explanatory but if you want to see the precise boundaries of each zones, here's a link to a PDF map.) This next chart shows new cases, by day, broken down by health zone. Each column in this chart is a "stack...
While much of the COVID-19 reporting focuses on the number of cases, experts are also closely tracking the number of hospitalizations. Hospitalization data is more of a lagging indicator, as it typically takes longer for someone who gets sick with COVID-19 to end up in hospital than it does for them to test positive for the virus. There can also be...
Hundreds of Albertans have now died of COVID-19 but the rate of deaths has fluctuated throughout the pandemic. This next chart shows the number of deaths, by day. There is often a lag between when a person dies and when it is reported to Alberta Health, so the number of deaths for the most recent few days tends to be under-reported. The vast majori...
Another term you often hear in discussion of COVID-19 is the number of "active" and "recovered" cases. In general, Alberta Health says a recovered case is defined as: 1. Anyone who is healthy after 14 days have passed, if they did not experience severe symptoms requiring hospitalization. 2. Anyone who has gone 10 days from their date of discharge f...
It the earliest stages of the outbreak, testing focused on international travellers returning to Alberta and their close contacts. On March 23, 2020, the province imposed stricter limits on who could get tested, giving a higher priority to those most at risk from COVID-19 and to health-care workers. Given that testing capacity was limitedat that ti...
The age of Albertans who are diagnosed with COVID-19 has varied over the course of the pandemic. At different times, the disease was being found more often in younger people, older people or middle-aged people due to a variety of factors. This next chart shows the case ratesin five broad age groups. Because the number of Albertans in each age group...
Alberta’s response to COVID-19 in the Continuing Care sector was shaped by public health orders issued to address the high levels of risk and vulnerability of residents in congregate living facilities.
Nov 1, 2021 · Since the fall of 2016, Alberta’s price of natural gas has spent approximately 85% of the time under $3.00/GJ, and 75% of the time priced less than $2.50/GJ. The most recent 5-year average price comes in at $2.42/GJ, which means the recent increase to $3.87/GJ amounts to a 60% price increase.
Sep 20, 2021 · Alberta's devastating fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit 20,614 active cases on Monday — far more than twice as many as any other province or territory and the first time the...
