Bill Hunka

With Russia clamping down on media, both domestic and international, BBC is reverting to a medium that hasn't seemed so necessary since the Cold War: shortwave radio to broadcast into Russia. Part of our coverage tonight on The National.

Sharing this via twitter because I think it's in the public interest to know: we now have enough delta cases in kids, and enough pediatric hospitalizations in Ontario, that we can estimate the odds ratio for hospitalization with delta. It is increased, OR = 2.75 (1.59 to 4.49)

CANADA ⚽️🇨🇦 IS GOLDEN! CANADA WINS IN PENALTY KICKS! 22 Canadian women have made history. They’ve changed the colour of the medal. It’s the first time a Canadian women’s team has won gold at the Olympics. They’re Olympic champions. #Tokyo2020

BONNE SAINT-JEAN, TOUT LE MONDE!!!

King County epidemiologists discovered that 97% of all COVID cases during April and May were among the unvaccinated. That isn't enticing enough for people to get a shot, so we're trying a million-dollar cash giveaway, writes columnist Danny Westneat. st.news/3vUGSal

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The AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine will now be available to those 40 years & older in Ontario, starting April 20 (previously for 55+ years). There are ~1400 pharmacies in the province & Family Docs administering this vaccine. Smart move. This will help. bit.ly/3glYmYg

By April 19, every adult will be eligible to be vaccinated.

FUNDSTRAT: The # of daily US vaccinations is now 45x the # of daily confirmed cases. “As long as the US has this prodigious ratio .. this is pointing to a future decline in the pervasiveness of COVID-19 pandemic. .. vaccinations are a leading indicator.” @fundstrat

WOW—The world’s largest #P1 variant outbreak surge outside of Brazil has now solidified with 480 total cases in British Columbia 🇨🇦 Famed ski resort @WhistlerBlckcmb has 1120 #COVID19 cases Jan-March—**83.2% are young adults aged 20-39**🧵 HT @AndreaWoo theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

It’s many patients in that 20 to 50 year old group. Most do not seem to have co morbidities. This will go very badly if people don’t wise up. Don’t travel right now. At this pace of admissions our covid unit will be over capacity before Tuesday.

B.C. has set two new daily records for #COVID19 cases, at 1,018 Thursday and 1,072 on Friday. Charts to come.

🚨 CIRCUIT BREAKER IN B.C. 🚨 For the next three weeks, the provincial government is banning indoor dining, group fitness activities, indoor worship services, and shutting down Whistler ski resort.

Do vaccines work? With over 70% of seniors with a vaccine shot, COVID ER visits have dropped 80%.

Great speaking with @MelissaLeeCNBC Millennials structurally transforming equity markets - Millennials greater interest in 'self-directed' vs give $$$ funds/hedge funds. - To inherit $68T next 20 years. Yup Events this week arguably sign of regime change. @CNBCFastMoney

Key is to keep investing in expansion of manufacturing capacities of the vaccines that are most likely to allow us to expand them to cover more strains and to redose with boosters. That means investing in massive scale-up of protein-based vaccines.

Biden’s first foreign leader call will happen with Canada’s Trudeau Friday, per @PressSec.

By far one of my favorite charts from the quarterly Morgan Stanley CIO survey: currently only 26% of application workloads are run in the cloud. This is expected to grow to 42% by the end of 2023. Still sooooo much room to run in cloud markets

Violent pro-Trump insurrectionists have just interrupted debate in the US Senate.