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Analytics and Performance Reporting Branch

Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit

2022-May-25 13:25






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 38384 laboratory-confirmed, and 789 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 29 years (range: 0-102)





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 229 1 252 1 0 0 481 1
1-4 years 959 2 987 3 1 0 1,947 5
5-9 years 1,564 4 1,655 4 0 0 3,219 8
10-19 years 3,655 9 3,385 9 8 0 7,048 18
20-29 years 3,859 10 3,460 9 5 0 7,324 19
30-39 years 3,526 9 2,971 8 3 0 6,500 17
40-49 years 2,633 7 2,186 6 0 0 4,819 12
50-59 years 2,145 5 1,730 4 1 0 3,876 10
60-69 years 1,248 3 973 2 0 0 2,221 6
70-79 years 552 1 419 1 0 0 971 2
80+ years 250 1 174 0 0 0 424 1
Unknown 182 0 160 0 1 0 343 1
All 20,802 53 18,352 47 19 0 39,173 100



Severe outcomes

Summary

  • Average age for COVID cases not hospitalized is 30 years, (range: 0-102)
  • Average age for COVID cases hospitalized is 47 years, (range: 0-98)
  • 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 39173 3144 8.0 72.1 678 1.7 15.5 355 0.9 8.1
Under 1 year 481 56 11.6 NA 8 1.7 NA 0 0.0 NA
1-4 years 1947 35 1.8 419.8 8 0.4 95.9 0 0.0 0.0
5-9 years 3219 14 0.4 119.6 1 0.0 8.5 0 0.0 0.0
10-19 years 7048 137 1.9 486.5 24 0.3 85.2 0 0.0 0.0
20-29 years 7324 421 5.7 1810.4 60 0.8 258.0 5 0.1 21.5
30-39 years 6500 535 8.2 2336.7 78 1.2 340.7 15 0.2 65.5
40-49 years 4819 464 9.6 2167.9 120 2.5 560.7 34 0.7 158.9
50-59 years 3876 531 13.7 3141.6 155 4.0 917.1 59 1.5 349.1
60-69 years 2221 456 20.5 3046.3 129 5.8 861.8 91 4.1 607.9
70-79 years 971 323 33.3 2879.6 79 8.1 704.3 87 9.0 775.6
80+ years 424 159 37.5 2002.8 15 3.5 188.9 64 15.1 806.1
Unknown 343 13 3.8 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 296,844 doses of COVID vaccine were administered in the First Nations people

  • At least 146,551 (rate: 86.6%) First Nations people received at least one dose of COVID vaccine.

  • At least 118,151 (rate: 69.8%) 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 1458 691 540 224 1365 745 854 432 1440 559 5657 2651
12-19 3836 3741 2589 2214 4799 4311 1999 1826 5665 4689 18888 16781
20-34 6626 6326 3828 3379 9065 8221 3233 2966 9484 8073 32236 28965
35-49 5447 5639 3161 2916 7584 7008 2749 2645 8080 7354 27021 25562
50-64 4246 4476 2416 2284 5476 5260 2172 2145 6957 6672 21267 20837
65+ 1554 1661 955 949 2095 2092 1034 1067 3197 3134 8835 8903
12+ 21880 21973 13020 11771 29175 26997 11287 10710 33544 30030 108906 101481
5+ 23341 22666 13573 11997 30569 27750 12149 11143 35021 30599 114653 104155



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 38.6% 18.3% 18.7% 7.7% 24.7% 13.5% 44.4% 22.5% 20.4% 7.9% 26.7% 12.5%
12-19 87.8% 85.6% 74.8% 64.0% 73.5% 66.0% 93.7% 85.6% 72.6% 60.1% 77.7% 69.0%
20-34 81.7% 78.0% 76.3% 67.3% 70.2% 63.7% 87.1% 79.9% 75.4% 64.2% 76.2% 68.4%
35-49 84.0% 87.0% 80.3% 74.0% 75.0% 69.3% 91.3% 87.8% 84.5% 76.9% 81.6% 77.2%
50-64 86.9% 91.6% 86.8% 82.1% 79.6% 76.4% 89.8% 88.6% 89.7% 86.0% 86.0% 84.3%
65+ 90.1% 96.3% 85.0% 84.4% 83.8% 83.7% 95.0% 98.1% 90.2% 88.4% 88.5% 89.2%
12+ 78.5% 78.8% 71.5% 64.6% 68.7% 63.6% 83.7% 79.4% 72.9% 65.3% 73.6% 68.6%
5+ 73.7% 71.6% 64.3% 56.8% 63.7% 57.9% 78.8% 72.3% 66.0% 57.7% 67.8% 61.6%

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 6,937 18
Central Zone 6,564 17
Edmonton Zone 8,437 22
North Zone 13,388 34
South Zone 3,840 10
Unknown 7 0
All 39,173 100



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.