Tracy Sherlock
Pandemic Diary Week 31: Getting tested
A line up of cars full of people waiting for covid tests at the Richmond testing centre. Late last week, I had a scratchy throat and a...
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Pandemic Diary Week 30: What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?
A big table full of family is not in the cards this Thanksgiving, but it's still possible to celebrated. Photo by Mat Brown from Pexels...
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Pandemic Diary Week 29: B.C.'s holding its own as virus surges around the world
This map, from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control shows the rate and number of new covid-19 cases in Metro Vancouver over the past two...
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Pandemic Diary Week 28: The sound of kids playing temporarily drowns out warnings of what’s to come
This graphic is from the Public Health Agency of Canada and the grey line shows what will happen if we maintain our current rate of...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 27, or time to dial back social connections
All of Metro Vancouver is in the highest category of covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in the most recent maps released by the B.C....
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Pandemic Diary: Week 26, or six months of covidian life
B.C. Premier John Horgan stands by as Health Minister Adrian Dix speaks to the media about covid-19 in B.C. (photo from B.C. government.)...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 25, B.C. is at a 'precipice’
This graphic shows where different age groups in B.C. were exposed to covid-19. The dark green is healthcare settings, more prominent...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 24, or panic over back to school
This map of British Columbia shows the rate of covid-19 cases by Local Health Area. For a number of weeks now, one of the biggest news...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 23, or the two towers of B.C.'s covid-19 experience
The BC Centre for Disease Control chart above shows B.C.'s epidemic curve is rising fast. The curve is bending the wrong way in B.C., as...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 22, when B.C.’s curve started bending the wrong way
This chart by B.C.'s provincial health officer shows our pandemic curve is starting to curve back up. It was so great this week to see...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 21 ~ B.C.’s pandemic is changing
This chart shows where most of the covid-19 cases in B.C. have happened. On the left, is information from January to now and on the right...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 20, or how covid-19 hit women hard
Women took on more of the home-schooling duties while schools were closed due to the pandemic, studies have found. While debates rage...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 19 and B.C. is holding its breath
These charts are from B.C.'s latest modelling projections and show how the covid-19 curve could take off in the wrong direction if social...
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B.C.'s pandemic vastly different from Washington State's
Google Maps screen shot shows British Columbia and Washington State, two jurisdictions with very different Covid-19 experiences, so far....
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Pandemic Diary: Week 18 and we’re all getting a bit cranky
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that causes Covid-19) (round blue objects) emerging from the surface...
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B.C.'s deficit could hit 'staggering' $12.5 billion this year
Carole James, Minister of Finance, presented a fiscal update for B.C. on July 14. (B.C. government photo.) The province of B.C. may have...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 17, the week the bill came due
Even though things seem relatively normal in B.C. these days, a financial update by the federal government shows it’s really anything but.
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Pandemic Diary: Week 16, when seniors caught a break
Adrian Dix, minister of health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, provincial health officer, announce that long-term care homes can again have...
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Pandemic Diary: Week 15, as the virus explodes around us, B.C. stays the course
This chart, provided by the B.C. government, shows B.C.'s low rate of infections. Maybe it’s luck, or maybe it’s Dr. Bonnie Henry, or...
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We've seen the worst, but the very best police act like caring parents
This image is a screengrab from RCMP dashcam video showing the arrest of Allan Adam. What if police acted more like caring parents? This...
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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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