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Analytics and Performance Reporting Branch

Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit

2022-Mar-30 14:52






COVID-19 in First Nations People (all Alberta)

Note: This report includes First Nations people living on and off reserve.

Highlights

Cases

Summary

  • There are 37128 laboratory-confirmed, and 761 probable cases.







Figure 1: COVID-19 cases in First Nations people by day and case status. Probable cases include cases where the lab confirmation is pending.



Characteristics

Summary

  • The median age is 28 years (range: 0-100)





Table 1. COVID-19 cases in First Nations people by age group and gender
  Gender  
  Female Male Unknown All
Age Count Percent Count Percent Count Percent Count Percent
Under 1 year 219 1 240 1 0 0 459 1
1-4 years 933 2 967 3 0 0 1,900 5
5-9 years 1,537 4 1,634 4 0 0 3,171 8
10-19 years 3,587 9 3,344 9 8 0 6,939 18
20-29 years 3,750 10 3,397 9 5 0 7,152 19
30-39 years 3,405 9 2,904 8 3 0 6,312 17
40-49 years 2,508 7 2,130 6 0 0 4,638 12
50-59 years 2,029 5 1,660 4 1 0 3,690 10
60-69 years 1,143 3 910 2 0 0 2,053 5
70-79 years 501 1 377 1 0 0 878 2
80+ years 218 1 151 0 0 0 369 1
Unknown 179 0 148 0 1 0 328 1
All 20,009 53 17,862 47 18 0 37,889 100



Severe outcomes

Summary

  • Average age for COVID cases not hospitalized is 29 years, (range: 0-100)
  • Average age for COVID cases hospitalized is 47 years, (range: 0-97)
  • Average age for COVID cases hospitalized with an ICU stay is 50 years, (range: 0-92)
  • Average age for COVID cases that died is 65 years, (range: 23-97)



Table 2 . Total Hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths (ever) among COVID-19 cases in First Nations people by age group
Age Group
Cases
Hospitalized
ICU
Deaths
Count Count Case rate Pop. rate Count Case rate Pop. rate Count Case rate Pop. rate
Total 37889 2937 7.8 67.3 636 1.7 14.6 322 0.8 7.4
Under 1 year 459 48 10.5 NA 7 1.5 NA 0 0.0 NA
1-4 years 1900 28 1.5 335.8 6 0.3 72.0 0 0.0 0.0
5-9 years 3171 13 0.4 111.0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0
10-19 years 6939 124 1.8 440.4 20 0.3 71.0 0 0.0 0.0
20-29 years 7152 401 5.6 1724.4 58 0.8 249.4 5 0.1 21.5
30-39 years 6312 508 8.0 2218.7 74 1.2 323.2 14 0.2 61.1
40-49 years 4638 444 9.6 2074.5 111 2.4 518.6 33 0.7 154.2
50-59 years 3690 497 13.5 2940.5 150 4.1 887.5 52 1.4 307.7
60-69 years 2053 428 20.8 2859.2 123 6.0 821.7 85 4.1 567.8
70-79 years 878 290 33.0 2585.4 74 8.4 659.7 79 9.0 704.3
80+ years 369 144 39.0 1813.8 12 3.3 151.2 54 14.6 680.2
Unknown 328 12 3.7 NA 1 0.3 NA 0 0.0 NA
Note:
Based on total hospitalizations and ICU admissions ever.
Row percent is out of the number of cases in each age group.
Each ICU admission is also included in the total number of hospitalization
Case rate (per 100 cases)
Population rate (per 100,000 population)



Figure 2: Number of current First Nations COVID patients in hospital, ICU and non-ICU



Vaccinations

Notes:

Currently, 12 (out of 27) First Nation Public Health Offices submit vaccination data to Alberta Health. For this report, people who received vaccines in those First Nations Public Health Offices or people who were identified as First Nations based on First Nations Registry were included. Additional aggregate doses reported by First Nations Inuit and Health Branch, Indigenous Services Canada, were included in the summary section and Table 2.

Summary

  • At least 291,957 doses of COVID vaccine were administered in the First Nations people

  • At least 145,994 (rate: 86.3%) First Nations people received at least one dose of COVID vaccine.

  • At least 117,009 (rate: 69.1%) First Nations people were fully vaccined of COVID vaccine.



Table 3. Count of people vaccinated by age group and # of doses in First Nations people by zone.
Calgary
Central
Edmonton
South
North
Alberta
Age group at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized
5-11 1405 530 522 155 1325 626 800 314 1378 433 5430 2058
12-19 3831 3716 2582 2188 4780 4282 1994 1806 5630 4633 18817 16625
20-34 6610 6305 3810 3357 9028 8169 3223 2949 9449 7994 32120 28774
35-49 5432 5617 3151 2903 7565 6983 2743 2634 8051 7306 26942 25443
50-64 4241 4467 2405 2278 5469 5241 2168 2143 6947 6653 21230 20782
65+ 1548 1658 954 946 2093 2088 1034 1065 3192 3121 8821 8878
12+ 21833 21892 12973 11701 29091 26868 11262 10658 33431 29814 108590 100933
5+ 23242 22424 13508 11858 30443 27501 12069 10973 34838 30257 114100 103013



Table 4. Percentage of population vaccinated by age group and # of doses in First Nations people by zone.
Calgary
Central
Edmonton
South
North
Alberta
Age group at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized at least 1 dose fully immunized
5-11 37.2% 14.0% 18.0% 5.4% 24.0% 11.3% 41.6% 16.3% 19.5% 6.1% 25.6% 9.7%
12-19 87.6% 85.0% 74.6% 63.3% 73.2% 65.6% 93.5% 84.7% 72.1% 59.3% 77.4% 68.4%
20-34 81.5% 77.7% 75.9% 66.9% 70.0% 63.3% 86.9% 79.5% 75.1% 63.6% 75.9% 68.0%
35-49 83.8% 86.6% 80.0% 73.7% 74.8% 69.0% 91.1% 87.5% 84.2% 76.4% 81.4% 76.9%
50-64 86.8% 91.4% 86.4% 81.9% 79.5% 76.2% 89.6% 88.6% 89.5% 85.7% 85.9% 84.0%
65+ 89.7% 96.1% 84.9% 84.2% 83.8% 83.6% 95.0% 97.9% 90.0% 88.0% 88.4% 88.9%
12+ 78.3% 78.5% 71.2% 64.3% 68.5% 63.3% 83.5% 79.0% 72.7% 64.8% 73.4% 68.2%
5+ 73.4% 70.9% 64.0% 56.2% 63.5% 57.3% 78.3% 71.2% 65.6% 57.0% 67.4% 60.9%

Exclude aggregate doses reported by First Nations Inuit and Health Branch, Indigenous Services Canada



Figure 3: COVID-19 vaccine administered in First Nations people by day.

Exclude aggregate doses reported by First Nations Inuit and Health Branch, Indigenous Services Canada

Geospatial

Summary

Figure 4: Cumulative COVID-19 cases in First Nations people by zone and date reported to Alberta Health. Cases without a postal code or incorrect postal codes are labelled as unknown.

Table 5. COVID-19 cases in First Nations people by zone
Zone Count Percent
Calgary Zone 6,591 17
Central Zone 6,392 17
Edmonton Zone 8,143 21
North Zone 13,051 34
South Zone 3,704 10
Unknown 8 0
All 37,889 100



Laboratory testing

Figure 5: People tested for COVID-19 in First Nations people by day.



Figure 6: Cumulative and daily test positivity rate for COVID-19 in First Nations people.



Figure 7: Positivity rate for COVID-19 in First Nations people by zone.

Data notes

Data sources

Each COVID-19 case is assigned a First Nations status if they are on the cumulative First Nations Status Registry. The First Nations Status Registry is a listing of all Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan (AHCIP) registrants who have ever been associated with a First Nations group number since 1983. Furthermore, if an individual without ever showing a First Nations group number is on an AHCIP account for which the main registrant has had a First Nations group number at some point since 1983, the individual is also placed on the First Nations Status registry.

The Provincial Surveillance Information system (PSI) is a laboratory surveillance system which receives positive results for all Notifiable Diseases and diseases under laboratory surveillance from Alberta Precision Labs (APL). The system also receives negative results for a subset of organisms such as COVID-19. The system contains basic information on characteristics and demographics such as age, zone and gender.

Recovered is based on the assumption that a case is recovered 14 days after a particular date. For confirmed cases, we used specimen collected date and for probable cases, this is the date reported to Alberta Health.

Information such as hospitalizations and ICU admissions are received through enhanced case report forms sent by Alberta Health Services (AHS).

Disclaimer

The content and format of this report are subject to change. Cases are under investigation and numbers may fluctuate as cases are resolved. Data included in the interactive data application are up-to-date as of midday of the date of posting.