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Analytics and Performance Reporting Branch

Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit

2022-Apr-14 10:46






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 37535 laboratory-confirmed, and 765 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 222 1 244 1 0 0 466 1
1-4 years 936 2 971 3 1 0 1,908 5
5-9 years 1,548 4 1,642 4 0 0 3,190 8
10-19 years 3,612 9 3,359 9 8 0 6,979 18
20-29 years 3,782 10 3,416 9 5 0 7,203 19
30-39 years 3,450 9 2,928 8 3 0 6,381 17
40-49 years 2,555 7 2,152 6 0 0 4,707 12
50-59 years 2,072 5 1,679 4 1 0 3,752 10
60-69 years 1,178 3 921 2 0 0 2,099 5
70-79 years 516 1 388 1 0 0 904 2
80+ years 225 1 156 0 0 0 381 1
Unknown 179 0 150 0 1 0 330 1
All 20,275 53 18,006 47 19 0 38,300 100



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 38300 2987 7.8 68.5 644 1.7 14.8 328 0.9 7.5
Under 1 year 466 52 11.2 NA 8 1.7 NA 0 0.0 NA
1-4 years 1908 30 1.6 359.8 7 0.4 84.0 0 0.0 0.0
5-9 years 3190 13 0.4 111.0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0
10-19 years 6979 129 1.8 458.1 21 0.3 74.6 0 0.0 0.0
20-29 years 7203 406 5.6 1745.9 59 0.8 253.7 5 0.1 21.5
30-39 years 6381 514 8.1 2244.9 74 1.2 323.2 14 0.2 61.1
40-49 years 4707 449 9.5 2097.8 113 2.4 528.0 33 0.7 154.2
50-59 years 3752 504 13.4 2981.9 151 4.0 893.4 52 1.4 307.7
60-69 years 2099 432 20.6 2886.0 123 5.9 821.7 85 4.0 567.8
70-79 years 904 297 32.9 2647.8 75 8.3 668.6 82 9.1 731.0
80+ years 381 148 38.8 1864.2 12 3.1 151.2 57 15.0 718.0
Unknown 330 13 3.9 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 293,276 doses of COVID vaccine were administered in the First Nations people

  • At least 146,181 (rate: 86.4%) First Nations people received at least one dose of COVID vaccine.

  • At least 117,425 (rate: 69.4%) 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 1425 606 526 184 1343 672 833 353 1402 473 5529 2288
12-19 3832 3727 2583 2201 4781 4291 1997 1817 5640 4653 18833 16689
20-34 6613 6307 3815 3363 9039 8180 3224 2955 9458 8025 32149 28830
35-49 5438 5626 3152 2904 7573 6989 2745 2638 8061 7324 26969 25481
50-64 4243 4471 2406 2278 5472 5248 2168 2144 6951 6662 21240 20803
65+ 1548 1659 954 946 2093 2088 1034 1066 3195 3125 8824 8884
12+ 21845 21919 12981 11721 29114 26901 11268 10681 33466 29897 108674 101119
5+ 23273 22527 13519 11907 30486 27580 12108 11035 34899 30380 114285 103429



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 37.8% 16.1% 18.2% 6.4% 24.3% 12.2% 43.3% 18.3% 19.9% 6.7% 26.1% 10.8%
12-19 87.7% 85.3% 74.7% 63.6% 73.2% 65.7% 93.6% 85.2% 72.2% 59.6% 77.5% 68.7%
20-34 81.5% 77.7% 76.0% 67.0% 70.0% 63.4% 86.9% 79.6% 75.2% 63.8% 76.0% 68.1%
35-49 83.9% 86.8% 80.0% 73.7% 74.9% 69.1% 91.1% 87.6% 84.3% 76.6% 81.5% 77.0%
50-64 86.9% 91.5% 86.5% 81.9% 79.5% 76.3% 89.6% 88.6% 89.6% 85.9% 85.9% 84.1%
65+ 89.7% 96.2% 84.9% 84.2% 83.8% 83.6% 95.0% 98.0% 90.1% 88.2% 88.4% 89.0%
12+ 78.4% 78.6% 71.3% 64.4% 68.6% 63.4% 83.5% 79.2% 72.7% 65.0% 73.4% 68.3%
5+ 73.5% 71.2% 64.1% 56.4% 63.6% 57.5% 78.6% 71.6% 65.8% 57.2% 67.5% 61.1%

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 6,714 18
Central Zone 6,446 17
Edmonton Zone 8,229 21
North Zone 13,152 34
South Zone 3,752 10
Unknown 7 0
All 38,300 100



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.