N.B.'s COVID-19 hazard index doubles in a week, now highest in Canada, says researcher
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New Brunswick's COVID-19 hazard index has more than doubled in a week and is now the highest in the country, according to an infectious diseases researcher and co-founder of COVID-19 Resources Canada.
The province is still listed as "severe," but its score for Oct. 21 to Nov. 3 has jumped to 22.8 from 10 a week ago, data posted by Tara Moriarty on social media Monday shows.
The national average is 21.2, with an estimated on in every Canadians currently infected, says Moriarty, an associate professor at the University of Toronto.
In New Brunswick, about one in 10 people are infected.
Estimated infections across Canada are at or nearing the peak of all previous Omicron waves, except the December 2021 wave, according to Moriarty.
"We think mortality in Canada from this wave may reach the height of deaths from all previous COVID-19 waves in the pandemic to date, unless those at greatest risk of death from COVID-19 get their boosters ASAP," she says.
New Brunswick no longer provides a pandemic death toll in the new Respiratory Watch report, but at least 946 New Brunswickers have died from COVID, as of last week.
An updated weekly report is expected from the province this afternoon.
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