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Tracy Sherlock

Mar 4, 20214 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 51: Will it be a post-pandemic world or endemic disease?

The map above shows the number of new COVID-19 cases for the week of February 19 to 25, 2021. (Photo supplied by BC Centre for Disease...

Tracy Sherlock

Feb 25, 20213 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 50: ‘Vaccine hope and pandemic reality’

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix updates the province about COVID-19. (Photo from BC government flikr.) More than 9,000 COVID-19 vaccines...

Tracy Sherlock

Feb 19, 20214 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 49: Are we ready for a third wave?

The above modelling shows that current public health measures will be insufficient to protect against a resurgence of COVID-19 due to...

Tracy Sherlock

Feb 11, 20213 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 48: Variants and vaccines in a race

A health care worker gets her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: BC Government.) With several more infectious variants of...

Tracy Sherlock

Feb 5, 20214 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 47: And now we wait

A graphic image of what the viral curve might look like if the more infectious variant first discovered in the U.K. takes off in B.C....

Tracy Sherlock

Jan 28, 20215 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 46: There’s a spanner in the works

B.C.'s immunization plan may be awry as delays have hit supply. (Photo: BC government.) Dr. Bonnie Henry said this week that she would...

Tracy Sherlock

Jan 21, 20213 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 45: A new day for the USA

Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States this week. (Image by BarBus from Pixabay) Masks and social distancing were...

Tracy Sherlock

Jan 15, 20214 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 44: Two of the new covid-19 variants found in B.C.

Will the vaccine or the variant win? A health care worker in Victoria is immunized against covid-19. (Photo: B.C. government) It feels...

Tracy Sherlock

Jan 7, 20213 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 43: Is this as dark as it gets?

These may be the darkest days of the covid-19 pandemic. (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.) The New Year has not started on the most...

Tracy Sherlock

Dec 31, 20203 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 42: Pinning our hopes on 2021

Happy New Year! It will be nice to put 2021 behind us. (Photo by Tumisu from Pixabay) Thinking back to last New Year’s Eve, we had no...

Tracy Sherlock

Dec 26, 20203 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 41: Have we been naughty or nice?

B.C.'s provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry gets her first dose of the covid-19 vaccine. (Photo: B.C. government flickr) For the...

Tracy Sherlock

Dec 17, 20203 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 40: Let’s get creative about the holidays

Covid doesn't care if it's the holidays. (Photo from Wikimedia Commons) This will be a holiday season like no other in this lifetime –...

Tracy Sherlock

Dec 11, 20204 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 39: The vaccine arrives next week

A covid-19 vaccine is expected to arrive in B.C. by next week. (Image by fernando zhiminaicela from pixabay.com.) A covid-19 vaccine will...

Tracy Sherlock

Dec 4, 20204 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 38: Dr. Henry gets angry

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry sometimes gets emotional during her briefings. (BC government photo.) Dr. Bonnie Henry has...

Tracy Sherlock

Nov 27, 20204 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 37: We’re cycling uphill

At this point in the pandemic, we're cycling uphill, Dr. Bonnie Henry says. (Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay) The pandemic...

Tracy Sherlock

Nov 20, 20204 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 36: Light flickers at the end of the tunnel

Two promising vaccines are lights at the end of the covid-19 tunnel. (Royalty-free photo from PXFuel) It feels like we’re headed into a...

Tracy Sherlock

Nov 13, 20204 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 35: Surge in covid-19 'puts us all at risk'

This graph provided by Dr. Bonnie Henry shows the pandemic curve in B.C. is trending the wrong way. As covid-19 spikes to alarming new...

Tracy Sherlock

Nov 6, 20203 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 34: All eyes on the American election

The big news this week is the American election, but the pandemic is worse than ever. (Wikimedia Photo.) All eyes are glued to the set,...

Tracy Sherlock

Oct 30, 20204 min read

Pandemic Diary Week 33: Winter is coming; where will we find the light?

Hallowe'en is going to be different this covid year, as will Remembrance Day, Christmas and New Year's. (Image by Jill Wellington from...

Tracy Sherlock

Oct 23, 20203 min read

Pandemic Diary: Week 32 was not a good week for B.C.

B.C.'s Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry is urging everyone to stick to social activities of their family group or no more than...

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Tracy Sherlock is a freelance journalist based in Vancouver. She worked as a reporter and editor at the Vancouver Sun until 2017 and served as education beat reporter and books editor. She has also worked in community papers and as a web editor. Tracy has received the Jack Webster Award, B.C.’s top journalism prize, and received a citation of merit for the Michener Award, a national journalism award for public service journalism.

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Pandemic Diary

Pandemic Diary Week 51: Will it be a post-pandemic world or endemic disease?

Pandemic Diary Week 50: ‘Vaccine hope and pandemic reality’

Pandemic Diary Week 49: Are we ready for a third wave?

Pandemic Diary Week 48: Variants and vaccines in a race

Pandemic Diary Week 47: And now we wait

Pandemic Diary Week 46: There’s a spanner in the works

Pandemic Diary Week 45: A new day for the USA

Pandemic Diary Week 44: Two of the new covid-19 variants found in B.C.

Pandemic Diary Week 43: Is this as dark as it gets?

Pandemic Diary Week 42: Pinning our hopes on 2021

Pandemic Diary Week 41: Have we been naughty or nice?

Pandemic Diary Week 40: Let’s get creative about the holidays

Pandemic Diary Week 39: The vaccine arrives next week

Pandemic Diary Week 38: Dr. Henry gets angry

Pandemic Diary Week 37: We’re cycling uphill

Pandemic Diary Week 36: Light flickers at the end of the tunnel

Pandemic Diary Week 35: Surge in covid-19 'puts us all at risk'

Pandemic Diary Week 34: All eyes on the American election

Pandemic Diary Week 33: Winter is coming; where will we find the light?

Pandemic Diary: Week 32 was not a good week for B.C.

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