Nova Scotia has gone from worst to first in vaccinations against COVID-19. For months after the Canadian vaccine rollout began in December, the province had the country’s lowest vax rate, but during May and June it injected so many people that the latest federal data (from June 19) shows the province has Canada’s highest percentage […]
Kyle Shaw
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Kyle was a founding member of the newspaper in 1993 and was the paper’s first publisher. Kyle occasionally teaches creative nonfiction writing (think magazine-style #longreads) and copy editing at the University of King’s College School of Journalism.
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When Nova Scotia’s third wave of COVID might end
Nobody knows what the future holds, but the past two waves of COVID in Nova Scotia tell us a lot about how the current third wave could end. The following animated slideshow from The Coast considers how previous waves reached a peak of active cases, then subsided over several weeks until the provincial government could […]
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5 charts for 5,000 cases
The pandemic officially arrived in Nova Scotia on Sunday, March 15, 2020, when chief medical officer of health Robert Strang announced the first cases of COVID-19 had been diagnosed in the province. And it reached a new milestone Wednesday, May 19, 2021, when Strang announced the latest batch of infections; adding that day’s total (83 […]
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5 examples of Halifax cheug
CBC is on it, the Toronto Star is on it, CTV is totally on it. “It” being “cheugy,” a term from 2013 to describe intergenerational cringe and the most try-hard aspects of millennial culture, which is having a TikTok-lead resurgence Right. Now. With cheug currently dominating headlines, we figured we’d pile onto the fun with […]
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4,000 cases, 3 waves, 1 chart
Nova Scotia’s pandemic started in 2020 with an intense first wave of infections, then its settled down so much that the second wave in December was more like a ripple. But things changed again, and a massive third COVID wave arrived in April. It took the disease 407 days—more than a year—to infect 2,000 Nova […]
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165 new cases and 77 people recovered May 9
Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 caseload increases for the 23rd straight day today, as the province reports 165 new infections and only 77 resolved cases. “There are 138 cases in Central Zone, 16 in Eastern Zone, six in Western Zone and five in Northern Zone,” says the daily disease update. Currently the province has 1,627 active […]
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163 new cases and 1 death Saturday, May 8
For the second day in a row, a Nova Scotian has died from COVID-19. The province reported the death—a man in his 70s in the Central health zone—in Saturday’s COVID update. This is Nova Scotia’s 71st death from the disease. Saturday, May 8, 2021 New cases 163 New deaths 1 New recoveries 88 Active […]
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A tighter lockdown and 227 new cases arrive May 7
Today Nova Scotia announced 227 new cases of COVID-19, a grim provincial record that spawned two more, as the caseload rose for the record 21st straight day to a record 1,464 active cases. Five more people entered the hospital since yesterday, for a total of 50 patients, and one person—a woman in her 70s in […]
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182 new cases including 2 in long-term care on May 6
Another day, another set of record-breaking numbers from this stupid virus. The province is reporting 182 new COVID-19 infections today—155 in the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s Central zone, 16 in the Eastern zone, seven in Northern and four Western—the highest single-day total ever among Atlantic Canadian provinces. Thursday, May 6, 2021 New cases 182 New […]
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175 new cases on May 5, day 8 of the NS lockdown
On hump day in Nova Scotia, COVID-19 infections reach a new peak: 175 new daily cases push the caseload to 1,203 active cases, both record highs. Wednesday, May 5, 2021 New cases 175 New recoveries 32 Active cases 1,203 Days in a row with cases 37 Total cases in Nova Scotia during pandemic 3,182 Halifax’s […]
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153 new cases, 2 deaths & 3,000+ total cases May 4
This is simply an awful day in Nova Scotia’s pandemic, with practically every number and statistic going in the wrong direction. But one stands out as the worst news of all: The province is reporting two people have died due to COVID-19. Tuesday, May 4, 2021 New cases 153 New deaths 2 New recoveries 34 […]
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146 new cases and better Coast data delivery May 3
First thing this morning, there was good news from the province. “People Aged 50 to 54 Now Eligible for COVID-19 Vaccines; First Drive-Thru Clinic,” reads the title of a press release at 8:58am. That title pretty much explains it: Another age group—the roughly 68,000 Nova Scotians from 50 to 54 years old—is now eligible for […]
