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About ten years ago H1N1 hit First Nations people really hard here in Canada. About 1/3 of the hospitalizations were First Nations women. PDF http://www.nccah-

About ten years ago H1N1 hit First Nations people really hard here in Canada. About 1/3 of the hospitalizations were First Nations women. PDF http://www.nccah-ccnsa.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/Attachments/174/NCCAH-FS-InfluenzaEpidemiology-Part01-Halseth-EN-Web.pdf http://www.nccah-ccnsa.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/At...

gpm 6y ago
> About 1/3 of the hospitalizations were First Nations women. Huh? That doesn't sound right.... and indeed looking at your source it isn't... but in some sense it looks like it might actually be worse than that > Indigenous people accounted for 27.8% of all hospital admissions reported to PHAC during the first wave, but only 6.1% of hospital admissions during the second wave (Helferty et al., 2010). Less than a third of hospitalizations were indigenous people (both genders), it seems, and later > Rolland Harris et al. (2012), for example, found that Indigenous women accounted for 16.2% of hospitalized cases, [... continued below] So indigenous women are 1/6th of hospitalizations (which makes sense with 1/3rd of hospitalization being indigenous people). But > [... direct continuation of previous quote] 18.2% of ICU cases, and 50% of fatalities attributed to H1N1 influenza of those reporting ethnicity across Canada when both waves of the pandemic were combined. Indigenous women were half of the total deaths??? I feel like something weird must be going on with these statistics.
- danharaj 6y ago
  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ottawa-sends-body-bags-to-manitoba-reserves-1.844427 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ottawa-sends-body-ba...
  - gruez 6y ago
    >https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ottawa-sends-body-ba.. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ottawa-sends-body-ba.... How is this relevant? All it talks about is the government sending body bags with nothing related to infection/hospitalization/death rates.

gpm 6y ago

> About 1/3 of the hospitalizations were First Nations women. Huh? That doesn't sound right.... and indeed looking at your source it isn't... but in some sense it looks like it might actually be worse than that > Indigenous people accounted for 27.8% of all hospital admissions reported to PHAC during the first wave, but only 6.1% of hospital admissions during the second wave (Helferty et al., 2010). Less than a third of hospitalizations were indigenous people (both genders), it seems, and later > Rolland Harris et al. (2012), for example, found that Indigenous women accounted for 16.2% of hospitalized cases, [... continued below] So indigenous women are 1/6th of hospitalizations (which makes sense with 1/3rd of hospitalization being indigenous people). But > [... direct continuation of previous quote] 18.2% of ICU cases, and 50% of fatalities attributed to H1N1 influenza of those reporting ethnicity across Canada when both waves of the pandemic were combined. Indigenous women were half of the total deaths??? I feel like something weird must be going on with these statistics.

danharaj 6y ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ottawa-sends-body-bags-to-manitoba-reserves-1.844427 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ottawa-sends-body-ba...
- gruez 6y ago
  >https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ottawa-sends-body-ba.. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ottawa-sends-body-ba.... How is this relevant? All it talks about is the government sending body bags with nothing related to infection/hospitalization/death rates.