The Coronavirus — Your news for August 19
19 August, 2020 The NewsAmazing Sources
This project is an aggregation of reports about the week’s biggest news story, and so it couldn’t exist without the amazing work of some incredible journalists! Here are some of the articles and other sources I depended on this week:
- “Coming back from COVID-19: Janis’ story” (12 August, 2020). Healthy Canadians, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8v7EwF-0Xk
- “Coming back from COVID-19: Jacob’s story” (12 August, 2020). Healthy Canadians, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYH5zUd_sHs
- “Coming back from COVID-19: Matt’s story” (5 June, 2020). Healthy Canadians, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6FjwUzJ2QQ
- Berry, I. “Epidemiological Data from the COVID-19 Outbreak in Canada”. GitHub. https://github.com/ishaberry/Covid19Canada
- “Seth Rogen tells B.C.’s young people to ‘smoke weed and watch movies’ instead of partying” (15 August, 2020). CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/seth-rogen-youth-partying-pandemic-1.5686876
- Fletcher, Tanya (15 August, 2020). “No plans to change course in B.C. as COVID-19 rebounds to peak levels. Here’s why”. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/analysis-covid-rebound-peak-pandemic-levels-1.5687726
- Migdal, Alex (15 August, 2020). “As cases climb, backlogs force some COVID-19 testing sites in Lower Mainland to turn people away”. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-testing-sites-lower-mainland-1.5687855
- Migdal, Alex (14 August, 2020). “B.C. records more than 70 new daily COVID-19 cases 3 days in a row for the 1st time since the pandemic began”. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-records-more-than-70-new-daily-covid-19-cases-3-days-in-a-row-for-1st-time-since-the-pandemic-began-1.5687210
- “B.C.’s Back to School Plan”. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/k-12/covid-19-return-to-school
- “Five Stages Framework for K-12 Education”. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/k-12/covid-19-return-to-school/five-stages-framework
- Zussman, Richard (13 August, 2020). “B.C. government to hire up to 500 additional contact tracers amid COVID-19 pandemic”. Global News. https://globalnews.ca/news/7269657/horgan-bc-covid-19-safety-announcement/
- Lindsay, Bethany (12 August, 2020). “B.C. to hire 500 more health-care workers to increase COVID-19 contact tracing”. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-premier-horgan-dix-henry-covid-1.5683456
- “Phase 3 – BC’s Restart Plan”. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/covid-19-provincial-support/phase-3
- “Video shows large street party in Vancouver amid COVID-19” (15 August, 2020). Global News. https://globalnews.ca/video/7278483/video-shows-large-street-party-in-vancouver-amid-covid-19/
- Little, Simon (15 August, 2020). “Here’s what B.C. youth have to say about the province’s coronavirus spike”. Global News. https://globalnews.ca/news/7278255/b-c-youth-speak-coronavirus-spike/
- “Safer Social Interactions”. BC Centre for Disease Control. http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/social-interactions
- McElroy, Justin (21 July, 2020). “Here’s why new COVID-19 cases have tripled in B.C. but officials aren’t panicking”. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-19-cases-triple-young-people-1.5658323
- Lindsay, Bethany (18 August, 2020). “COVID-19 continues to spike in B.C. as health officials announce another 83 cases”. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/health-officials-provide-update-covid-19-cases-bc-1.5691260