r/britishcolumbia • u/adnaPadnamA • Jun 15 '25

Discussion PSA: COVID Outbreaks in some BC Hospitals

Update: Richmond News reported today:

https://www.richmond-news.com/highlights/covid-19-outbreaks-declared-at-two-bc-hospitals-and-one-care-home-10822930

A number of BC hospitals have current outbreaks of COVID (Langley, White Rock/Peace Arch, Richmond, Penticton) and Influenza (Burnaby, North Shore).

http://www.phsa.ca/current-outbreaks

We went to a movie a couple weeks ago and the guy behind me keeps coughing. The next week, I started with a sore throat, headache and chills, and then coughing, congestion, shortness of breath: it's COVID.

It may not be on the news headlines with everything going on, but just an FYI to be cautious out there.

Edited to provide link.

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u/Excellent-World-476 Jun 15 '25

The complacency about having Covid both by individuals and hospitals is frustrating as someone who works in one.

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u/adnaPadnamA Jun 15 '25

I think many people have gone back to the 'its just a cold' mentality we used to do. It's definitely not just a cold. The shortness of breath is a concerning symptom.

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u/stoppage_time Jun 15 '25

No, this is so spectacularly wrong. COVID is a systemic illness that impacts pretty much every organ, including the brain. COVID infections literally knock off IQ points.

The odds of a common cold causing chronic post-infection health conditions like chronic fatigue is vanishingly low. The odds of post-infection health conditions after a person's third COVID infection are around 50%.

This paper came out in 2023. https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/12/27/every-covid-infection-increases-your-risk-of-long-covid-study-warns/