hey how are you I'm getting ready I'm logging on to I'm trying to log on to my computer so I can at least be able to read you all's comments so give me a second so that way I can just go on with the tutorial I may have to sign in under my other name. Before we get started do anyone have any questions anything that you want me to touch on shall I say okay I'm gonna start I'm gonna wait okay so the first thing and I'll just check up periodically I want to talk about brushes first these brushes are by so I hope you have pen and paper as well these are back alpha brush you can actually like Google alpha brush on Instagram there are some codes for these okay I think I got in to my other one all right cool so next I'm gonna talk about well first let me go back so this size right here is about a 14 it's one of the larger sizes I don't recommend this as a beginner but once you get a little used to it I think you could use it this one here is by poochies nails you don't need any type of license or anything and when you order these as for them already pinched and these are Kalinsky brushes this here is about a not no excuse me this is a 12 this is I believe this is a 8 oval it has a little oil on it so I won't be using this one but this is the one I really want to show you guys with but it has a little too much oil I'm gonna run a little acetone through it and see if we can get it back together with this is what I would recommend starting with it's a little finer as you can see it's smaller a little like weight it's not as heavy so we're gonna try to use that one today once you get your nails I got these from Sally's I like to clear only because you can do clear designs you can put a colored acrylic over top of them and they're pretty good the Sally's ones they're a little thick for me but that's what we're gonna use for right now your finger here your practice finger all these things will be listed in my store front on Amazon we talked about buffers earlier I prefer the purple buffers for acrylics also for acrylic nails this is a 100 100 file here this is a 100 180 file it's usually listed there I got this from the nail supply but if you're going online you want to get the 100 and the 180 the 100 it is a harder grit so that is better for filing like shaping your nails the 180 is great for like buffing and it's not as harsh so think of it as going down being rougher the number going up being a little lighter okay hold on I'm gonna try to see if I can log in from here okay and then we talked about the clear we'll get back to that y'all I'm still trying to get in so give me a second okay and then I'm gonna need a little dish something like this I got this from the nail supply but it's just a little dish to put your monomer in the monomer that I suggest and great for beginners is the Mia secrets liquid monomer and the Mia secrets powder and this is the multi-balance natural pink acrylic y'all I'm still trying to alright so we talked about acetone make sure you have you some acetone this comes from Sally's it's great and get the pure acetone don't get the one that's blue get the one that's clear and it comes in the clear bottle you'll need alcohol I just took regular alcohol put in here and then we talked about primer you're gonna need your primer and I suggest the no lift nails one and all I did was put it in an empty nail bottle I get these nail bottles from the nail supply so that says primer I use a little this here so nail polish holder and I have the paper out here so that way I can dab this on here that way I don't put too much so you'll see me do that so I think we cover basically everything and then here's the cuticle oil your need okay let me check to see if I have any questions okay good good I'll do a more in-depth one with my real nails on my YouTube once it's time for that but I just being that I just did them yesterday when that time comes we'll do it okay so let's get started cuz I don't want to be long-winded okay so the first thing you want to do you're starting fresh I suggest taking I want to have some cotton here this is like no-link cotton take a little alcohol or you can take some acetone if you have a like polish or had on polish you want to just kind of we're pretending this is a nail okay wipe your nail down so acetone preferably wipe the nail down that's gonna dehydrate your nail it's gonna get any polish that you have on off and then just take the 180 side and just lightly kind of buff your nail you want to rough it up just a little bit and then what I like to do is take alcohol or this spray here spray it where's my oh here it is and I take the cuticle pusher and I go around the edges and just kind of push the cuticle back very gently not rough you want to just push it back any little excess skin now you may see a little skin still sticking up that's fine what I do normally with my drill I go in with the sanding band I'll show you what the same thing is this is what the same the band looks like and my drill here I'm trying to everything is kind of generally to y'all and then what I do is with that little excess skin you see how I'm holding it it's almost like holding a pencil and you want to keep the speed down and then I just go around here I'm gonna turn it on just for a second and you just go right around your cuticle get just close you want to put it at I want to say a 45 degree angle and just go around the size my angle may be wrong and then you want to just lightly go across the top here and rough it up a little bit more and you don't want to see any shiny parts on your nails but again get as close to that cuticle area as you can and you're gonna just kind of get the rest of that loose skin that's dangling around your nails off okay now I want to show you both kind of drill in regular way so again we're gonna go back so if we didn't use the drill we're gonna take the softened buff inside and just go around the way you want to do that is kind of lay your file at almost a 45 degree angle and just go around like that and that's how you would do it with a nail file lightly rough it and that should take the excess off okay after you do that what I like to do is take some more cotton take the swipe and then just wipe the nail I just wipe it off that dehydrates the nail again okay now what I do let's match up a nail that will fit on here and the thing with this also is that you don't want the nail to be too small I remember when I used to go to the nail place and get my nails done I always say why they can't use a smaller nail so I can get a skinnier point the key is you want to go from side to side from one side of the nail bed to the next but this little piece here you want it to be just like on the tip of your nail so you want to look and if it's too wide you can file it down let me check this one this one is a better fit because it goes from side to side so now we wipe that off let's get the glue so now you're gonna take the glue and just put it on that rim of the nail now this is a fake nail this ain't a real nail and you want to just kind of hold it there right on the tip you don't want to go past that little line that little imaginary line I want to make sure y'all can see some of this hold this here for a second now on this thing here I know we add the spray because again this is not a real nail you don't have to add the spray so this one I need an assistant trying to spray it y'all so to stay but you don't need this spray I only really got this spray for my jewels and for these little things because they're hard like I said you got to really rough it up with that dry let me see if you have any questions why they're trying hello well I'll be honest with you if you get stuff a little at a time I would say you shouldn't like you can find deals on the monomer and the acrylic for like $20 your nails they shouldn't that's like $10 you roughly would spend about 50 I'm only using this nail for practice to show you guys I always suggest people start with practicing that way before you get on your nails and you start messing up your own nails but I have a lot of polish for this stuff I've bought over time like with the jewels all this stuff I suggest you get off of Ali Express you get more for your money but the basics like this like Ali Express doesn't sell me as secrets me as secrets it's not sold like in stores only they only have an Amazon store it is the best acrylic system for beginners this right here you don't need like I said you could use alcohol or acetone buy stuff a little at a time you don't have to buy it but like I said look for codes on your brushes this again you don't need it's just alcohol you can use alcohol this is probably five dollars at Sally's this is actually empty I just pointing I'm glad I kept it though what are these a dollar you know now we're gonna use this too so near that's a dollar I use this but they're only like maybe three so I mean just about a little bit what you can't I will buy the basics the first things I would buy would be nails acrylic monomer and primer that would be different and a brush of course you can start out with a cheap brush but to be honest with you the better the brush the better you're gonna be able to lay acrylic but like I said over time maybe get two things let me start with my acrylic monomer and powder and even if you don't have primer use alcohol and a brush those three things basically and maybe just practice on your natural nail until you can get you some nails then maybe the next week buy you some nails and then your nails are gonna probably fall off because you don't have the primer so that gives you more of a chance to practice and then once you get your primer and you get better at it so let me finish so I'm just gonna do a basic square or like some people like so we don't cut that down I want to make it where it's not too long because everybody don't wear them long just a nice length so that looks like a pretty good length I think it's kind of on their crooked so now we're gonna take the rough side the 100 side remember going down we're just gonna file now if you're like okay I don't want them I want them to be a little small and you want to bring them in take your clipper here and just kind of I can do it better on my nails kind of take it off the side a little bit but start out like I said don't it doesn't have to be a big investment but think of the money that you'll save let's say if you spent $50 on all your stuff you just saved yourself hundreds of dollars because now you can do your nails every two weeks where you are paying some people pay $100 every two weeks $80 I'm in some nail groups and for jewels and all of that stuff those girls charge like $180 just to get your nails done a hundred and you see how I got my finger here on this side of the file that's to give me a little leverage just to get deeper into that that's where dang on it the nail just went flat across the room y'all hold on I'm gonna rough this up so we can regaloo another one and that's another thing you want to make sure that once you file you get all the dust off of your natural nail I'm not worried about it on this nail here but on your natural nail see how that stuck better than the last time I having to add the spray so we're gonna let that dry and I'm gonna look to see if we have any questions I still can't get on okay so so far everybody's gone but I'm just gonna cut this down that's why I don't really suggest the like I said these tips because they're a little thicker so they're harder to stay even on a regular nail so it's just not this one so I'm gonna try to be a little more gentler and that's another thing too when you do use tips you may have to hold where you glue the tip just a little bit okay now what I'm gonna do is I know nobody's on but just in case anybody come back and watch the live I'm just gonna rough around where you glue the nail so in between here I'm just gonna rough that just a little bit and that makes it if you doesn't have you don't have a hump and it's a blending okay so nobody's on so the next thing you're gonna do you're gonna just take your primer and the reason this blue cloth is on here so that I can just dab it on there so I don't get too much and then you're just gonna put your primer not as close to the cuticle but in between on that nail be a part there now I'm gonna add a little bit of monomer to my dish well since nobody's on here asking questions I'm just gonna go ahead and do this nail and I guess if someone sees it they'll ask questions I'm gonna use this poochies brush it's a little shorter it would be the next best thing to an 8 so we've added our primer now we're pulling out our acrylic I like to kind of give it a good shake so that way it's mixed up well and I just put the top down and that way it's kind of like at an angle and then I can see what I'm doing like still on okay so you what you want to do this is called burping your brush you take your brush and you lay it kind of flat in like that let's let all the bubbles come out of it what have you so put that in and then what you want to do is just kind of wipe it so this is a fresh nail you want to just hold tap your brush a little bit let it bounce in the acrylic powder and you see that little white powder stuff it's gonna go away and then what you want to do is lay it should be enough right there in between where you started and then I wiped my brush you want to patch your size so it doesn't run across the sides and I'm pushing it down towards the cuticle and then wiping it back up now I'm taking the belly of my brush which is this part here and just kind of flattening everything out and steady wiping my brush on my paper towel now I'm taking the tip and going around the edges so it doesn't get on the cuticle and wiping now I'm going to put my get my brush back in and just kind of go across that I'm looking at it from side to side and I'm seeing that I already got established my oh goodness I can't think of a technical name off the top of my head but basically you want to add more here because that's where our nails tend to break so you want to have just a little bit more there the technical word will come to me in a second I can't believe I forgot so now I'm dipping my brush back in wiping it and then I'm just going to dip just a little like two to three ounces and now I'm taking it backwards and sweeping it forward and something I want to make note of that you all can't really see but what I'm doing is I'm holding it down here but I'm touching it very very lightly don't be aggressive with it if you just touch real light that's all you need you don't need heavy pressure that's when you start to mess up so now I'm looking at it all angles this is what it looks like from that angle and I'm gonna tell you the better job you do of laying your acrylic the less you have to file but it'll take practice that's why I said get you some practice fingers now I'm just going to add a little bit more acrylic here at the tip it's very lightly tap and I'm brushing in the opposite direction just so that it blends and there we have it so and take as many bees as you like and what I mean by bees this is a bee when you put your brush in the monomer and then in the acrylic and you lay that like this is a bead I'm just gonna get next to the cuticle a little closer and that's considered a bead each time that you put your brush in the monomer and pick up acrylic no matter how big it is how small it is so don't get stuck on I got too little put it down lay it down and even if it takes you five acrylics on there and but it's neat it doesn't matter some people get caught up in oh I did one bead or it only took me two beads or whatever so that's what the nail is looking like and always look at it from every angle so if it's something minor that could be fouled off then that's fine but this is all you have to do so now I'm just gonna close this up wipe your brush off really good I'm a double check but I don't think anybody is on but I'm just gonna act like you here while that dries I'm gonna put everything up and we're going to following that and also you don't need this size they have smaller sizes see you have smaller sizes so if you just want to test it like what I did was I was like I may want to go back to the nail one to the nail salon so I start out with one smaller than this like this one so it gets even smaller so start out with a small one of this and your monomer which is the eight ounces that's the smaller size I think they may sell for ounces of it and you can just start there and that's not expensive because I don't want it to be expensive for you so that's why I'm showing you the cheaper acrylic powders you know later on you can get into the Valentino powders and the young nail powders but right now I don't suggest those because the Mia Secrets is easy to work with it's cheap and it won't cost you a lot of money okay so no one's still on so now you just tap it's still a little wet so we let that dry now that's drawing I'm gonna see if I can figure out how to get online I'm gonna come back so that way I can get a little closer


This is Dr. Gerald Stucca, Extension Veterinarian and Livestock Stewardship Specialist. I just want to talk to you about some calf health issues for 2021 and perhaps even leading over into 2022. As all of you are aware, we had a pretty significant drought this summer and had some range recently that provided some regrowth. But when you have drought and drought stress forages, it does lead to some things that need some attention. One of those being trace minerals. Sometimes our drought stress forages might be a little bit short of some of the trace minerals that are very important for the function of the animal and for the immune response of the animal, things such as copper and zinc and selenium and those trace minerals. But probably more importantly, sometimes these drought stress forages can be short of vitamin A. As most of you know, cattle get their vitamin A through the consumption of green forages. When there isn't any green forages, they don't get vitamin A. And if they've come through a drought stress summer, and now let's say they're out on corn stalks, which is not going to contain much vitamin A because they're not green forages at this stage. So we just need to be aware of some of the deficiencies that can be in our calves this fall that may not have been there previously. And we got to make sure that we're providing trace mineral supplementation through the mineral. It can be free choice, can be force fed in a total mixed ration. And that has adequate levels of vitamin A in the trace mineral package as well.  If I've got carryover hay for one year to the next, there's a very good chance that that carryover hay that's more than a year old is going to be inadequate in terms of its vitamin A levels. So please pay attention to trace minerals in vitamin A this fall and certainly this winter. You know, as to be expected with drought, we're probably going to have lower weaning weights. Lower weaning weights are as a result of certainly lower milk production by the dam and also less quality forage for the calf that gets to be at an age where that forage is providing quite a bit of that intake and projected weight gains for those calves. I just want to spend just a little bit of time talking about expected what I expect for BRDC. BRDC is an acronym for bovine respiratory disease complex. And what I'm portraying here is that if I'm raising calves on my home ranch, what would I expect to treat? What would I expect the death loss to be from bovine respiratory disease? As you can see from this slide, I expect either zero to one less than 1% mortality and certainly zero to less than 5% morbidity. That should be your expectations with well managed herds provided that you've done some of the things that sometimes need some attention and that leads us into the next bullet point and what is preventable via management. So on this bullet point under then I got BRDC, which stands for bovine respiratory disease complex. We call it complex because it's a little complicated. We have bacteria, we have viruses, we have stressors in the system that leads to calves actually demonstrating clinical signs of respiratory disease. But what I'm getting at is that some of these things are management issue rather than infectious disease issues. So I'll put it this way. If I have a ranch that's got several hunter cows, I'm more than likely going to have several different pastures. When I bring those pastures together at winning time and winning them once, that's what I mean by multiple groups. Now I'm throwing calves together to haven't seen each other since perhaps the calving season or maybe not then. I'm putting together, that's called commingling those cattle. I may or may not have transportation, but I'm certainly going to have a dietary change going from the grass that they're on and the milk that they're being supplied to by their mothers. They may or may not have an address change, probably somewhat because they're going from pasture and in many cases, not all, because sometimes we do have, we can wean calves and pasture right next to their dams, which is for some it goes great for others. Sometimes those calves figure out how to get back to their dams, their mothers without too much trouble. So they might have a little bit of an address change and certainly at this time of the year in October, November, we can have environmental changes. We can have some low lows, some high high steel and some moisture and so sometimes it creates pen conditions that are not conducive to a calf that's trying to handle weaning and handle dietary changes, struggling with mud in the pen and maybe even some wet circumstance getting wet or snow on. So there's a number of stressors that in many cases can be somewhat preventable. I realize it's hard to to address the environmental change. But think about this in a ranch with several hundred cows coming together. I'm going to wean those calves at once and I'm going to put them all together. What might I do to reduce some of that coming like stress that may be there? Well, what I can do if possible is to put the cows in all the cows and calves together in one place and then feed them. Feed them a ration that doesn't have to be a ration that you're necessarily targeting for gain, but certainly targeting so that the calves will eat something and their mother teaches them how to eat what they're eating.  And so separate the calves at that point, feed them the same ration, so to speak, maybe for a day or two and then make slow changes in that in that ration. That way you avoid that combing stress that gets piled on with weaning at the same time. And much of the issues related to respiratory disease kind of disappear if you can do those things. We still have in terms of calf healthy unexpected. And that would be like one ranch source calf 60 days post weaning with a respiratory disease outbreak. Those things do happen. And I would say that most of the time I can usually identify a ration change, a step up in the amount of energy in that ration. Some other ingredient that's gone in there to cause some digestive upsets that's led ultimately to those calves demonstrating respiratory disease and the clinical science with that. We also can have things that are a little bit out of the ordinary in confined situation. But still calves can can demonstrate and get infected with some of those pink eye organisms, some of those foot rot organisms, and even things like polio, in which case we might need to examine the ration for the level of sulfates in the diet. That seems to be the biggest culprit today as it relates to to polio. Then at the end, we'll talk a little bit about vaccination and how that might be involved in a preventable preventing disease strategy. When I look at these things, and this would be your veterinarian as well. It really helps for us to have a complete history. Have yourself a manager heard person someone else contribute to the history. And that should have a high priority. I want to want to focus on dates. And so some of these things really need to be written down. When do you think it began? When was the first case? When did you combing calves together? How many of you treated? How many of you had to retreat? And unfortunately, how many actually died from respiratory disease in this case? And then the numbers of animals, in terms of animal health, we use a term called case specific rates. That just simply means if I treat 10 animals with an antibiotic, what did I treat them with and what did I treat them for? So if I got 10 out of 100, I treated for respiratory disease and I used antibiotic A. That's a 10% case specific rate due to respiratory disease. Let's start here a little bit and just talk about what does a sick animal look like. And maybe more importantly, we need to know what a well animal looks like in order to determine what a sick animal looks like. So let's just list a couple things on the wellness side. Signs and symptoms of healthy cattle. Well, they should be up eating. They should be bright-eyed. And for those of you that have spent a fair amount of time looking at animals and behavior, you'll know what that bright-eyed comment is referring to. You can see this up in the upper right corner. There's an image there of some black steers and those are bright-eyed cattle. They should have a good hair coat provided they've been in for some time and you haven't shipped them from a geographical location that's a long ways away from you where they may not have enough hair or they've gone from north to south or they got too much hair. But indeed, in terms of wellness, they should have good hair coat. They should groom themselves and others and then they should be curious. Well, it depends on sometimes the disposition or the temperament of these cattle. Sometimes they are curious from a quarter of a mile away, but others should come right up to the bunk and try and figure out who you are. So those are the signs of healthy cattle. When we're dealing with primarily respiratory disease, I think many of us understand what those signs and symptoms are. And so a sign would be like taking a rectal temperature. If I'm taking a rectal temperature, that's an objective measurement that something is going on in that animal, particularly if the temperature is above, let's say, 104. That's an objective sign that that animal is dealing with something and that may need further attention and may actually need treatment. In most cases, the answer to that would be yes. A symptom really refers to another acronym that we've used in the cattle business and that's called ADR, which just means ain't doing right. And for those of you that are looking at this picture, you can see there's at least two animals in here. The one on the left and one on the right that they're certainly ain't doing right. I don't know what the rectal temperatures are, but if I saw those animals in the pen, I'd wonder why I hadn't seen those animals the day before or two days before this particular image. So normal temperature in a calf, it's going to be anywhere from 101.5 up to 103.5. And you know, for many of us when they get to be 103, 103.5 and they're showing some other symptoms besides that temperature, we might consider pulling and treating that animal. So I use these numbers rather loosely, but certainly an animal that's above 103.5 is going to need further attention and likely may need some type of therapy. Remember, there's many reasons why an animal doesn't come to the feed bunk. That's the first thing that we notice, but it's not always disease. It can be the fact that the water's been shut off or there's electricity in the water or they're just shy. And they don't compete very well or there's not enough bunk space for them all to come at the same time. And if those are ruled out, then the final answer might be that they have actually got disease or something wrong. We're not sure exactly. We don't know whether it's viral or bacterial, but there's something that's not right. Just wanted to throw in a kind of a little schematic here, I guess, or an illustration of just the respiratory system. Here we have the trachea and that branches into bronchi or bronchus. And then ultimately you get down to what we call these alveoli. And those are the spaces where oxygen and CO2 are exchanged and where that animal actually picks up enough oxygen for it to survive. So now what I'm showing you is an animal that's been opened up and obviously died from something. And this is the lung tissue on the right. If I go to the right, that's where the head end is of the animal. If I go to the left, that's obviously where the back end is. I got a piece of liver and I got a gallbladder. And then here, you know, I've got some lung tissue here that doesn't look so healthy. Up here, you know, I can find pieces that look a little bit better. So this is somewhat healthy, although not completely. This is lung tissue down here that's in really, really bad shape. And there's not going to be any exchange of oxygen and CO2 in the alveolar spaces in that lung. So that's an animal died of respiratory disease. Here's another one. This one's a little bit different. I don't see really any healthy tissue here at all. You can see this lung that has kind of a nasty color. There might be a few spaces that would look okay. And then I've got a film covering this lung. It's called fibrin. That's an acute phase protein. And it's produced by the animal as an attempt to control that infection, to wall off that infection. If you will, obviously this animal didn't make it either. Back here would be the liver. And then on this end would be the head of that animal. This is a little bit different lesion here or something that causes a lot of breathing in animals. This is what we would call catheteria or necrotic laryngitis. Cavs like this that have a lesion in their voice box are going to make a lot of noise. It doesn't mean they've got lung lesions. It doesn't mean they can't survive. But this is a case where this is going to be very noisy breathing. You'll hear them breathing from a long distance away. And usually those calves outside of this one, obviously, but if you treat them early, they should respond pretty well to that infection. Here's a little different one. This is a viral infection. And what we got here is long tissue, but you can see it's long really hasn't collapsed a great deal. I got little bubbles showing here. Those alboreal or spaces have actually expanded and kind of bubbled to the surface. This is what we would call a BRSV infection, bovine respiratory sensational virus. And the good thing about these viruses like this one, BRSV, we actually can immunize animals against that virus and protect that from clinical disease and from this sort of thing happening. Here's one we don't talk about so much in North Dakota, although we get a few cases now and then. This is called mycoplasmal pneumonia. And I just want to demonstrate here what's going on here. Up here, I got some fairly decent lung tissue. Down here, you can see a kind of a line of demarcation.    And that's very indicative of a mycoplasma pneumonia. Mycoplasma is a little bit different organism. We don't have effective vaccines for it. And this is a nasty infection. And sometimes these cattle with mycoplasma pneumonia don't always show you very good clinical science or even for that matter. Not only symptoms of respiratory disease, but sometimes their temperature doesn't come up that high either. It's kind of more of a chronic infection as evidenced by some of these abscesses. One of the nasty things about mycoplasma, it can actually metastasize, if you will, and get to the joints. This is actually a knee joint of a calf. And I got some nasty looking material that are right inside the knee joint. And we would call that a mycoplasmal arthritis condition. Very painful and almost impossible to treat. I wanted to point this out. This is more related to mycoplasma than anything. I'll maybe use a little different color here to just highlight this. So this is groups of calves that were brought in. There was like 60 calves. And what they did with this study, they swabbed it. They took deep nasal swabs every 10 days or so up until they took a day zero, day 10, 21 and 28, 60. I just want to point out what happens with mycoplasma. They had just a few cases when they came in and by day 10, they got 75% of those calves that has mycoplasma. My point is that mycoplasma is one of those organisms that seems to spread really rapidly. So it's an interesting observation. And it's sometimes why in high risk animals, we use antibiotics on arrival to maybe curb that spread as quickly. In fact, this one happens to be antibiotics that were given on arrival. And you can see they eventually get up to 75%, but it's actually by day 21. So it delayed that spread of that disease just a little bit with antibiotics on arrival. The problem with this organism is that we don't have very good vaccines against it. In fact, here's a study showing really no effect at all. They gave it to dairy calves and really the mycoplasma that caused otitis media, which is a ear infection. It was the same for vaccinated calves and for unvaccinated calves. So there was no difference in the overall treatment rate. There was no difference of when it should first showed up, whether they had vaccines or not. And the same issue, not only for ear infections, but for respiratory disease was the same whether they had been vaccinated or not. So it's kind of frustrating that we still don't have a vaccine for mycoplasma with demonstrated efficacy. I want to point this out because this relates back to a slide ahead earlier and that it relates to co-mingling and how oftentimes we miss the impact of co-mingling. We talk about vaccines a lot and vaccines are very important, but we sometimes overlook the co-mingling effect. This happened to be a number of years ago when a colleague of mine sent me an email and this is the history on it. This is at a Georgia bull test station. They had a vaccine protocol that was sent to the bull test years ago. We're incoming bulls. They were vaccinated two to three weeks prior to arrival, which could make sense to build immunity up to a certain level before they come. With IBR, PI3, BRSV, and BVD-1 and 2, which that would be a five-way viral vaccine. They also received manheimia hemolytica, pastorella multacida, and hemoflasomenus along with a seven-way. It's a lot to give them, but they gave it to them two to three weeks prior to arrival. Then a processing that he wasn't quite sure what they got, but they were given boosters at processing, so in other words, when they came. The question, this follow-up question is, there's a little more of the history. Typically processing in is around July 5th, and the bulls are sold around December 7th, within seven to ten days after arrival. There are numerous cases of respiratory disease, which are treated, may be retreated, and the process really runs till late November. So his question was, if the protocol prior arrival and at processing was IN, which means intranasal administered vaccine like TSV2, or we could say IN-4-3, or MerCAS-1 as well, and an intramuscular subcure manheimia hemolytica, pastorella vaccine plus costridial, omitting the hemophilus, would there be less BRD? I would appreciate your advice. The vaccine in this case had nothing to do at all with the respiratory disease that they're seeing. What we're dealing with here is the impact of commingling. Now we're putting both together. I don't care what you vaccinate them with. When you don't deal with the commingling, you're going to have respiratory disease. So sometimes we overstate the importance of vaccines. They're important. But tweaking a vaccine protocol is not going to be the answer, especially in this type of situation we've got overwhelming. And then this final slide. Prevent the preventable as it regards nutrition to avoid some of that commingling effect on calves raised on the same ranch. Feed all the groups of cows and calves together prior to weaning. Maybe it's a week, maybe it's two weeks. Sometime needs to expire feeding those cows and calves together to remove the effect of commingling. And then feed a very similar ration at weaning. Once you've taken the calves away from the cows, feed a similar ration and make those changes gradually. Avoid overfeeding. It seems like when you try and step up rations too quickly, be very gradual and doing so can lead to BRD. Observe calves for state of well-being. Calf manure should be solid stools and not runny, not bloody. We talked earlier about calves not coming to the bunk. There's got to be a reason. And then for obvious reasons, we sometimes feed ionophores not just for feed efficiency, but most of the fact that they're pretty effective at preventing coxidiosis and don't forget trace minerals and certainly vitamin A in this year. As relates to vaccines, we talked about this a little bit earlier. They're important. The IBR, BVD, BRS, VPI3, they're all viral vaccines. We recognize them as five-way and they tend to be very effective when given properly and at the right time. When it comes to the bacterial populations, maybe it's a little bit less so. I would say that manhime hemolytica vaccines have some scientific evidence that indicates they can limit lung damage. Pasterol multashida, hemophilosomus, mycoplasma bovis. There's not very much scientific evidence that would tell us that they work. I'm not telling anybody not to use them, but from my standpoint, I have a hard time finding vaccine efficacy. So thank you very much for listening. I enjoyed this very much and we'll talk again. Thank you.


What's up, Mopar fam? We are about to do some, honestly, some overdue maintenance on Frostbite. We need to change the supercharger oil and the torque storm supercharger. Also need to do a regular oil change on the truck itself. So just a lot of service needs to be done and we're gonna be checking the plugs as well. But this video is gonna be about how to change the oil in your torque storm supercharger. So let's get into it. But before we get started, let's go check out the old girl running real quick. So we are gonna get started on the supercharger oil change on the torque storm. Very simple process. First things we gotta do, obviously, we were running the truck because I was trying to get it warmed up pretty good so the oil will come out very nicely. I wanna try to get it all out. So we got it nice and warm. So the first step is gonna be we gotta pop off the belt for the supercharger and pretty straightforward. We just gotta loosen the, just push the pulley down to take the tension off the belt right here on the idler and then we're gonna undo, let's go here under my fender here. You can probably see a little better. There we go, we're just gonna undo the elbow and the 90 degree elbow right here off the supercharger. We're gonna loosen that clamp and then next thing will be to remove these Allen head screws right here on the main bracket and that's what bolts the supercharger to the main bracket and then the supercharger will come loose and we'll take the air filter off as well and then the drain screw is on the supercharger there. So once we get it off, we can take the drain bolt out and tip the supercharger oil, tip the supercharger over and let the oil drain out of it and then we will refill it. These superchargers per torque storm, they say they hold six ounces of oil. That's it, nothing more, nothing less, but mine's pretty much due to be done. I think they say to do it every year for every 10,000 miles I believe and I don't think I'm nowhere near the mileage yet but I'm definitely past a year and we've been running the truck pretty hard on the race track obviously so definitely time to do it, I've been meaning to do it, just haven't had the time and today I'm gonna make time, we're gonna get it done. So other than that, that's pretty much it. We're gonna grab some tools and start taking some stuff apart here and yeah, stay tuned. All right, so we have a 15 millimeter wrench down here and I'm gonna put it down here on the pulley or the tensioner pulley and I'm gonna push the belt. I'm gonna pull the tensioner down to release the tension on the belt. I'm gonna have my side kick over here. Take the pulley or take the belt off of the supercharger pulley here. Mr. Helper guy, come on. Mr. Focus, focus, focus on this. You got it? Down there. All right, let's go. All right, let's try to do this with a camera in one hand and wrench another hand and a hot radiator hose. Here we go. All right. There you go. You almost got it now.  All right, try to get behind it with your fingernails again or your fingers. Right there where it's about to fall off and pull it towards the front. There it goes. Oh, you can do it. It's so tight. Bam, like money. Oh yeah, there's no slippage on that belt. She's a tight one. All right, now we're gonna loosen the elbow on the bottom of the supercharger for the, that goes down to the intercooler. And then we're gonna take the filter off and then start undoing these Allen head screws right here. And then this dude will be coming out. I got Mr. Side Kick on the clamp for that elbow down there. May vary from people's setups to different setups, but mine's a little 10 millimeter socket or wrench to loosen that clamp. All right, now we're gonna loosen the clamp on the filter. That goes onto the supercharger back here. There you go, that's enough. Now just grab the filter and it should pull off. Bam, money, money. And then on to the next step. All right, as you can see, try to zoom in here by the tire. We have the lower elbow off of the supercharger going to the intercooler. So the charge pipe right there is basically disconnected. And the only thing we got left to do to get the supercharger out now is gonna be removing these Allen head screws. So we're gonna get a tool real quick and get those loose. And then the supercharger will be coming out. All right, what we're gonna use for these Allen head screws, good old, and I'm a fan of a good old cornhole, cornwheel tools, yeah, come on. This is one of my favorite three eighths ratchets, swivel head, dilly. And we have a eight millimeter Allen head, socket dilly, dilly dally, whatever you wanna call it, on the ratchet here to get the bolts out with. And a pretty fancy little kit comes with pretty much everything in there. That's what we're gonna use to get these bolts out with. So here you go, there you go. There's a handful of these little dudes in there. So we'll just get the tool on there, simply loosen them up, just like so. So we'll be back in just a minute here while we get all these screws out real quick. All right guys, so as you can see, we have the seven bolts out right here, the seven Allen head bolts. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven that you gotta remove. And then supercharger comes completely out of the vehicle. It's like that, we got a torque storm, baby. It's a bad girl right there. All right, let's go over here and do some surgery.  You can see right here, where this says proudly made in the USA because it's a bad Miami jamma. Right here is the oil plug, which is another Allen head. So we're gonna remove this plug, drain the oil into a pan, and then we'll flip it back over like so, put in exactly six ounces of oil, put the plug back in, and put this bad mammer jammer back in the truck. All right guys, so we have a, this is a, what is it? This is a quarter inch, quarter inch Allen head to take out this plug. That's down here on the backside of the supercharger, where the wheel is, where the whirly wheel is, right under the American flag made in the USA Dilly. So this is the plug to drain it and fill it right here. So we're gonna try to loosen this, I've never done it, so I don't know how tight this guy's gonna be, but let's give it a whirl. Oh, it's not too tight. Not bad at all. So I'm gonna stand it back up here. Now the plug don't look too bad. Let's see what kind of shape this oil looks like. This will be the first time, and it's nice and hot right now. So here we go, coming on out. Looks pretty good, purple stuff. Looks like the old royal purple. Looks really clean. I don't see any like silvery metal kind of oil stuff. It looks really clean. I don't even see any metal debris in there at all. Torxstorm has told me, obviously they run their units before they ship them out. So they pretty much do the break-in period for you, more or less. So as long as you change the oil with, every year, every 10,000 miles or whatever, you should be good to go. These things are pretty good, very well-made supercharger units, and they got the best warranty as far as all the superchargers go, so you can't beat them. I'm gonna rotate the pulley a little bit, maybe. I'm holding it there, see if I can get any. And it goes a little bit more. We've got her drained, and I'm gonna put the plug back in for just a second until we get our oil ready to go to be put back in here. I don't want any kind of underneath some trees here, so I don't want anything to fall in it while I got my back turned. All right, guys, so this is what I'm gonna do. We're gonna use a little measuring cup here to measure out our six ounces of oil, which is gonna be about right here. And I'm not telling you to go in the kitchen and steal your wife's measuring devices, but if you do, you may wanna not let them find out. Just saying, it's all you, baby. Anyway, we're gonna fill this up with our oil to six ounces, and then go from there. All right, as you can see, we have our six ounces of oil ready to go. So we're gonna take this over here, and I have a little funnel that we're gonna put in the supercharger and pour this stuff in. All right, so we got this little tiny, perfect funnel right here, fits in the hole perfectly, and we have our six ounces of oil measured out, so we're gonna pour it right in, and it's gonna go down pretty slow because obviously there's really nowhere to vent the oil out of more or less, so it's gonna take its time to kind of go down there. But like I said, Torx Storm said six ounces of oil. This is the oil I get from them. They already send it out, usually they got pre-measured bottles or whatever if you want, but six ounces of oil. You don't wanna put too much because obviously if you put way too much in it, then it's gonna try to probably blow the oil out of all the seals, and that's not gonna be good. Obviously you don't wanna put too little because that's not good, so try to get it right at six ounces, and you should be good to go. Looks like that's all down.  And honestly, if you guys drive your car a lot and then you start to get the supercharger oil, you start to get the supercharger dirty, now's the perfect time to polish that dude up, so I might go grab some of my mother's polish real quick, and try to clean this thing up a little bit because it's been on here for over a year, and I have it cleaned at one time besides what I can wipe down when it's under the hood, so we might polish this thing up real quick with our hand and just maybe some blue towels real quick just to kinda clean it up some. But other than that, oil change is done, and it's ready to be put back in the truck, so I'm gonna try to clean it up a little bit like I said, and then we're gonna mount it back on the truck, put the belt back on, and we'll start it up, run it a little bit, make sure everything's good, make sure we got no leaks, but that's pretty much it, guys, so very simple oil change on the Torx Storm unit. There you go, that's where it's at, guys, right there, baby.  And again, I can't say enough how much I appreciate Torx Storm, they've helped me out tremendously, along with other people out there, John Cope, Cope Racing Transmissions, Dr. Durf Varenchel, Justin's been tuning the truck, and he's getting the truck dialed in, and that's for sure. So stay tuned, let's get this thing put back on the truck, guys. All right, as you see, we got the supercharger back in the hole here, and we are starting to snug down all the Allen head screws, pretty straightforward operation. I think we're like barely 20 minutes into this thing. Doesn't take long at all, anybody can do this yourself, so if you've got a Torx Storm supercharger, you really don't have to take this thing anywhere to get it done, if you're trying to do the oil change. But that's up to you, but again, like I said, it's very, very simple to do. Once we get all these snug, we're gonna go back on them again and torque them down to a eh, a good proper three to four Ugg-a-Duggas. I prefer the Ugg-a-Duggas over the Ugg-a-Chuggas just because I've had better luck with Ugg-a-Duggas, but that's just my opinion. So three to four Ugg-a-Duggas should get you going.  So we're gonna start this thing up here in just a second and just make sure everything's good. One more thing I'm gonna show you guys, and that's because I get asked this all the time, what kind of oil do I use, what oil do I run? This is what I use right here. I use the Lucas Full Synthetic 5W30. No particular reason, this is just what I've been using for the longest time now, especially after I did my cam swap the very first time. I use that right there, seven quarts of that and I use a Mopar genuine oil filter. But that's the oil I use and hopefully that answers some questions, I know I get asked all the time what oil I run, that's it. Like I said, no reason, I'm not sponsored by these guys by nothing, but that's the oil that I run. Like I said, no reason. Besides, I usually have good luck with Lucas products. I'm not sponsored by them by any way. I paid for all this oil, they don't actually send me anything, but that's the oil that I run, that's what I use. So there you go. Hi guys, we got supercharger back on, everything's done, we got the oil changed and the engine as well. So we got fresh supercharger oil, fresh engine oil, she's ready to rip. Also, we just switched over my meth injection. We went from running the Boost Juice, which is like a 50-50 mix, to we are running 100% M1 Methanol right now. So we're gonna be doing some more tuning on 100% meth and see what we can do with that stuff.


The rest and recovery aren't the same thing. It needs recovery. We'll graze stuff even in the middle of the winter. We're always grazing, you know, this much green grass in January, February. It's under that old stuff, which is technically next year's growth. That's the tiller stage, but it's not going to get grazed that summer. Because if we're there in, say, February, you know, it's not going to get grazed till March or something of the next year. So it has a chance to respond and send down its roots. And so, but that's my protein source in the middle of the winter, with that long-drawn grass. And we haven't seen any detriment. It's actually stimulated more diversity in that system.


Good afternoon, my name is Adrian Dix, I'm BC's Minister of Health. We received, shall we say, quite a few requests for comment from members of the media today. So I thought it would be easier just to talk to you all at once in this forum. That works. I'll say a few things to begin with about the announcement by the federal government with respect to travel and other issues today and events related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Won't be like a regular briefing, so I'll speak from members of the media for hopefully six to nine minutes and then I'll be happy to take the questions that you have. First of all, with respect to the travel guidelines by the federal government, not to travel internationally for non-essential travel. As the premier has noted in his statement, we support this effort, we support this advice, we support these guidelines, and it's pretty simple. If it's not necessary, don't go. We're seeing a very significant growth in the Omicron variant of concern across the world and in different parts of Canada. Here in British Columbia, yes, but even more so in other parts of Canada. Such that as we heard from Ontario today, there's an expectation that the Omicron variant of concern will become the dominant variant of concern in that province. I did consider a very short time ago we had not heard of it. That tells you how quickly events have been and are moving across the country and indeed across the world. And so I think the advice by the federal government with respect to travel is timely as the premier has said and it's pretty straightforward. If it isn't essential, don't go. And even though this is immensely disappointing and I know that many people have been hoping to get a break away from British Columbia at this time of year, it's also important and I think critical really to put your health, the health of the community first and that requires I think taking very seriously the guidance of the federal government. I'd also note that people have to, I think, exercise the same caution in traveling across Canada. As we've noted, Quebec and Ontario in the case of this variant and it hasn't been always the case but in the case of this variant have more cases right now and you see the growth of this variant of concern in those jurisdictions. You'll note that travel involving a rugby tournament led to the variant of concern going to different parts of the country including British Columbia. So I think the message is if you're not vaccinated, definitely don't travel that health measures are changing in different jurisdictions and change today in different jurisdictions and I would expect more change to follow in the days that come and so whether you're traveling around the world or across Canada, this is the time to exercise caution across the board. I wanted to note that we have seen in the last couple of days larger case counts in BC. We haven't seen the same increase in hospitalization of course and in critical care and in fact critical care is down today. I understand that the dashboard has been refreshed in our statement the update or the information bullet in their own cases will be out shortly but needless to say what we're seeing is an increase particularly in Vancouver Coastal Health which has seen extraordinarily low case counts relative to the population in recent months. We've seen an increase in cases there over the last number of days. Some of this is related as it has been at different times in the pandemic to informal social gatherings and in other words not organized social gatherings but informal social gatherings and we've seen some large clusters of cases as a result of that and you see that reflected in the numbers in those places. With respect to public health measures as Dr. Henry said yesterday it is important I think especially in this holiday period to exercise caution in all that we do medical health officers in the different health authorities have meeting with Dr. Henry today obviously others involved in those meetings including myself and I would expect Dr. Henry will be reviewing actively any changes to public health orders that will be required in the coming days to address the increase in case counts. Again not just related to the Omicron variant of concern in fact of course the vast majority of our cases in British Columbia continue to be the Delta variant. With respect to with respect to other issues I'd just say that our third dose immunization campaign continues to go well I just want to give you some details about this and I know that we announced our third dose strategy for all British Columbians at the time over 18 and now over 12 our strategy on October the 26th that everyone would be in line with the booster dose consistent with public health recommendations those recommendations were essentially supported about a month later by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization which met this week and continues to support those time lines and those measures six months and eight months and as of now our campaign is going very well as of yesterday when we had one of our bigger days so far 633,831 British Columbians have received their third dose that represents 60% of all those over 70 45% of all those over 65 and 14% of all those eligible British Columbians over 12 so we're making significant progress and every effort is going to be made and you saw that yesterday with the significant expansion of our program to pharmacies it's happening faster than expected 500 pharmacies by the end of this week a thousand in the month of January that every effort is going to be as quickly as possible to British Columbians consistent with public health guidelines it's important that we follow the best advice with respect to vaccine effectiveness and that's what we're doing and that's what we've been doing since we laid out the policy on October 26 I'll note the real very significant success of this effort in long-term care today the outbreak at Laurier Manor which is an assisted living facility in Prince George was declared over and down to two outbreaks in health care facilities in the province one at Ridge Meadows and Maple Ridge the other at Ponderosa in Kamloops so I think all of those are important considerations on our third dose campaign which will continue and continue to involve more and more people and especially locations including and especially pharmacies I want to note further that with respect to rapid testing as we proposed as we noted yesterday the British Columbia has of course been waiting for at-home tests which are on-label at-home tests which are not yet available in wide numbers in Canada and it had been our expectation based on the advice we received that we'd see them in November and then December and you'll recall the answers we gave at that time it now appears and so we said yesterday that they won't be available until January and they may not be available in the numbers that we would hope in spite of all of the numbers announced today by the federal government a relatively smaller subset a relatively small subset of those numbers will be at-take-home rapid tests so we'll be looking out our rapid testing plan coming up next Tuesday in terms of how we intend to both use those tests and to enhance them by using other tests that can be used individually more easily by people our rapid testing campaign is our effort 550,000 rapid tests used in BC about 35,000 a day right now is expanding and we need to as well continue to review our capacity to do PCR testing the gold standard test which is really required to follow up from rapid testing as you know we've expanded our capacity of our system to do roughly 20,600 tests a day we still have that capacity that capacity is in place I think yesterday the numbers the 589 test positive numbers is based on approximately 16,000 PCR tests that took place in British Columbia so it will be specifically there'll be significantly more access to rapid tests we're happy that more are coming we'll be getting our share of those in the new year as they come forward which is approximately when we divide things up 13.5% of the Canadian population and as we did with vaccination and other things you'll see a systematic campaign effort focused on those who need it most and to reduce transmission for those who are the most vulnerable and to assist people in dealing with this pandemic so you'll be seeing that shortly action so that people will see action on rapid testing you'll see soon and hopefully continued the continued efforts to use public health orders and guidance to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and again these extraordinary efforts to vaccinate British Columbians I want to encourage everybody if they're asked to get vaccinated to get vaccinated I want to say finally that in our childhood immunization campaign well two more things as of last night 77,857 children had received their first dose immunization with the child specific formula of the Pfizer vaccine that's 77,857 that's 22% of all those in the category approximately 146,000 registrations have been received and we encourage parents to register their children for that effort and finally I've just had a meeting with my federal and provincial health colleagues and one of the questions I have asked and continue to ask is about the availability of antivirals you'll know that there's one that's been developed by the multinational drug company Pfizer and other multinational drug company and both of those are under currently under health Canada review but the government of Canada has procured those drugs and can only be used pending approval by health Canada by the regulatory arm of health Canada and we expect that to happen sometime early in the new year and we look forward to that and hope to have that in addition to our other means of responding to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic finally I just want to thank all of our health care workers today and every day for all that they're doing across British Columbia and we have over 9200 patients in our acute care hospitals we have a large third dose vaccination campaign a significant childhood vaccination campaign our ongoing vaccination campaign 1600 contact tracers around the province we're doing more PCR testing than we have ever done in BC and we're going to continue to be there for you but this work isn't done in the abstract it's done by health care workers health care professionals and we're supported by people across the province and as always I wish to take thank you and I'm happy to take your question Minister a reminder to media on the line please press star 1 to enter the queue you'll be limited to one question and one follow-up for the first question today we start in the room Alan check on behalf of CTV Vancouver please go ahead Minister Dix what's your advice to British Columbians who have already planned trips outside of Canada and are now trying to figure out what to do well it's I've had the opportunity to respond to questions about this today you can imagine given the federal announcement that we've received lots of questions and lots of people in those circumstances the advice from Health Canada is very clear if it's not essential don't go and you know right from this podium people will recall in February and March of 2020 discussing these very issues and the cost to many people who did go and I don't this is not a question of recalling or holding people accountable because the circumstances were so new at the time but we've had this experience and when the officials at Health Canada say if it's not essential don't go then and that's supported by public health officials everywhere then I think that's good advice to take and so my advice unfortunately is because I know people have plans and I know it has cost for them is that it's necessary to follow that advice you know we talk about these cases we have a serious number of cases in BC today 589 I think it is across the province today and in the United Kingdom apples to apples as population they have 10 to 11 times in many cases in France they have 10 times in many cases in Germany they have 8 to 9 times in other words we have the same level of transmission of COVID-19 as they do in the United Kingdom which has an advanced health care system and has and in the national health service we would have today approximately 5.5 to 6,000 cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia today and so one has to take that into account and the fact that we now for the second time with measures the federal government took measures a couple of weeks ago and now is taking more measures and more advice today you can see that the situation is evolving and we can't be certain about what the situation will be two weeks from now but it is unlikely that it will be better than it is today so my advice is that there will be other trips but you only have one health and one life and your health is vitally important to that life and so follow the advice for the next question we go to Andrea Wu Hi thanks for taking my question regarding the dosing interval for kids 5 to 11 Nathie currently recommends 8 weeks in between the first and second shots but are parents in BC able to reduce that to say 3 or 4 weeks if they wanted to? Well right now Andrea we are focused on first doses and so I wouldn't expect that to be the case but that advice would come from Dr. Henry and her team and their immunization team and their recommendations but right now as noted we have vaccinated 70,000 of the 349,000 eligible or about 22% and we will be working through that and this is a vaccine of course that has been designed for children 5 to 11 it is now we have 77,000 children vaccinated in BC a huge number in the hundreds of thousands and tens of millions around the world so this is a vaccine that has proven its safety and proven its effectiveness not in studies but in the real world and I recommend everyone register for the moment though I wouldn't expect to change in that in that guidance but right now what we are trying to do and what we are focused on is getting everyone their first dose and that is going quite well but I would say if you look at the overall numbers we have vaccinated 37% book to appointments 42% registered that we need to get those registrations up because as you can see we are rapidly closing in we have gone from 0 to 22% we are going to go to 40% and we obviously need the registrations to continue to rise so we continue to have children to vaccinate at our vaccine centers Do you have a follow-up Andrea? Yes, thank you for that A question from a colleague why is it that we don't have the same type of take-home rapid tests that other provinces are distributing and who determines what kind of tests Ottawa has sent? Those discussions are between public health so those are public health guidance there are about 24 different kinds of rapid tests that are licensed in Canada and none of the tests are unlabeled designed as at-home tests that are available now some of them have been transformed or been transformed to do that so our public health officials we have a committee of senior officials that gives advice on rapid testing and that guides our rapid testing policy is driven by science and driven by public health in BC and it will continue to be over the next little while and they provide advice and recommendations on what the most effective tests are because they validate tests and they see what the most effective tests are the most accurate tests are and then they act accordingly so it's on their counsel and their advice that our decisions as to which rapid tests we have are made we're getting, I expect in addition to those that we have on hand that we described yesterday and additional 200,000 in this calendar year so for all the talk of tens of millions that's what's coming in this calendar year and we're looking to see how those can be used and those that we have can be used to provide, to expand out our program that's what we intend to do but those have the decisions are made they're made on the advice and counsel of public health in BC and that approach to put the science first and to put the advice on medical matters from public health first has been I think one of our major advantages in the province Next question, Richard Dussman, Global News To that question, Andrew was asking Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, Nova Scotia Saskatchewan all handing out rapid tests do they order something different than us or are they going off-label that we refuse to do I think that's what people are confused about Dr. Henry said yesterday Alberta ordered these tests they were at the front of the list we were at the bottom why are we at the bottom and on another decision in Ontario today they're now going with three months between second and third doses for boosters to speed up the process for everyone 18 plus shortening the gap between second and third doses to speed up boosters I think Dr. Henry responded to that second question yesterday which is first of all we have a lot on the six month schedule we have a lot of people on the cusp of six to eight months schedule on the cusp of getting third doses that that is what's best advised that's what's recommended by the NACI and that's what we'll do but there are differences between BC and Ontario for example the 126,000 clinically vulnerable people who have received their booster doses in BC that program is pretty unique in Canada to BC that focus on them the more than 25,000 healthcare workers who have already received their booster doses and so on so we laid out in detail what we are going to do on booster doses before everyone else on October 26th you recall there was some criticism of that because we said that everybody had to get the booster dose in BC over a schedule that was informed by public health and that's what we're going to do and with respect to rapid testing British Columbia has used rapid testing it's been used based on the efforts of public health it's been available for use since they were validated in British Columbia in December of 2020 we've used 555,000 I think roughly it will be more today but we're currently using about 35,000 a week and we will be seeking and are seeking more rapid tests and will be in January based on what we were told in November and December it was our expectation that take home tests would be available and they're not yet ones that are designed and are on label use of take home tests those would be available they're not available yet and because of questions about when they're available it's not just an issue it's not really an issue of approval it's an issue of the quantities it is our intention to add to that by making and adjusting some of our current supply so that we'll have more broader access to rapid testing in BC so our process is informed by the science and was put in place on the advice of public health and we're going to be meeting this challenge of these new circumstances with greater use of rapid tests but there's going to be also inevitably a greater use of PCR testing and other things that we've put emphasis on more so than other jurisdictions like contact tracing unlike other jurisdictions and I was asked in a media interview about the requirement put in Ontario this week that all visitors in long-term care will be vaccinated as you know that's been in place for some time but it's been a vaccine mandate in long-term care and acute care so there are some differences between the provinces in terms of their strategies but we intend to federal government announce more rapid tests today and we intend to get our full share of those and hopefully a significant portion of those will be take home because that would be the easiest and most useful way to expand the program without utilizing public health resources that we need to make sure that we're in the right place with the COVID-19 but the public health emergency that's the overdose crisis and everything else in healthcare and that's what we're going to do. Richard, do you have a follow-up? I want to ask about two types of gatherings in coastal health first one at Rogers Arena that happens every few nights when the Canucks play at home does the province have any intention to put on capacity limits like Ontario has for events like hockey games and what can we learn around cases in coastal health especially linked to people having parties or other gatherings and what can the province do to address that situation? On the second point yes and what we're seeing I think is the transmission is not related to has not been related largely to large organized gatherings such as hockey games but also cultural events and others which are organized under the auspices of the BC vaccine card and the issue there is one of risk into the future if we see an increase in transmission so all of those questions are regularly under review but clearly under review right now the issue in Vancouver coastal health and we've seen in Vancouver Island health as well and we've seen an increase in unorganized events where people come together for parties and social events which happened frequently this time of year and two things I'd say one I would expect I think people should heed what Dr Henry said yesterday which is this is the time for caution we have a new variant of concern in the world which is transmitting in another province Ontario not a small one but it's soon to become the dominant variant of concern and people need to be extremely cautious and my advice to you as individuals is if you're going to an event you don't know everyone at the event and there isn't a vaccine mandate at the event don't go. Next question we go to Rob Sharpe check new. Sorry Mr can I just can you put a sharper point on that last question from Richard are you considering restrictions on capacity limits and what I said very clearly Rob I think at the beginning but I'm going to say it again I'll try and put a point on it I'll try and put a point on it Dr Henry and regional medical officers of health are meeting actively on all these points and obviously those issues the issue of capacity limits the issue of the vaccine card the issue of for example of whether the vaccine card does apply to over 50 as well as over 50 in terms of capacity smaller events as well those issues are all under active consideration by public health and we'll have more to say about that soon. So I think the pointy answer to you is yes. Rob do you have a follow up? Okay that was good and pointy thank you. Just on the interval on the booster doses when Ontario announced today that they were opening them up to everyone who's 18 years and older is there a reason why BC can't just throw open the booster doses to anyone who wants one at this point and has reached that kind of almost six month mark? Do we not have enough capacity or is the system not would it not allow it or why can't we just follow that kind of route? Because in general what we try and do in BC and I say this without judgment of what anyone else does because everyone's dealing with their own circumstances but in general in BC we follow the science so we laid out a detailed plan on October 26th about how we're going to deal with booster and third doses and we did it before everybody else. The science suggesting this was subsequently supported by the NACI we said six to eight months after second dose and the NACI recommendation came in and it supported that view and that is because of vaccine effectiveness when the appropriate moment is to get the booster dose for your own health and that's on it's on that the decision has been made and we've been doing very well and we have made some other decisions that are different than other provinces in particular the 126,000 clinically extremely vulnerable people who are eligible and have been received the third dose of the vaccine I think that was the right decision so our approach is guided as it always has been on where the risk is so long-term care and assisted living we've done all long-term care and assisted living and independent living homes and you've seen the results that and vaccine mandates clinically extremely vulnerable people it was our view and the view of those people whose lives are devoted to studying and operationalizing this work is that we can prioritize a number of people who are clinically extremely vulnerable it's a subset of the whole group so it doesn't include people like me with type 1 diabetes but it includes about 150,000 people 126,000 of those have been vaccinated and we're going to continue to do that which is in small and remote indigenous communities some of which received the first and second doses earlier we're doing that as well basically about six months ago we've done about 600 and 650,000 second doses and that's how many third doses we've done so we're on schedule and we've just cranked up the pharmacy system with much thanks to the B.C. Pharmacy Association to continue to meet the tests there so we are doing the work and when we made the announcement Rob October 26 we expected to do we laid out how many vaccines we do between now and the end of the year we're going to do 35% more than that and we continue to have to do better Next question, Susan Lazaruck thank you for that Oh hi, thanks for taking my question I'm just going to go back to the booster rollout when the decision to rollout the booster was made on October 26 all the con wasn't the concern that it is today so it's surging it's coinciding with everyone gathering for holidays what's preventing B.C. from rolling out the boosters at a faster rate like they're doing in Ontario and Alberta we are we haven't made too many announcements about it but we are in fact we're doing it at 35% faster rate not theoretically but actually right now we laid out our plans and remember you provide booster doses to provide effective protection against COVID-19 and that is the intention of the program that is what we're doing with the program so the science says not just our science but what we ourselves say that's a six-month interval at least six-month interval for older people and then it's the recommendation of the NACI I think was closer to eight months for younger people to maximize the effectiveness of the vaccine and so that's the approach that Dr. Henry laid out in detail yesterday that we're following so we are expanding capacity we did an announcement about the drug on yesterday we talked to the BC Pharmacy Association we laid it out where we're dramatically expanding pharmacies it's all in our immunization BC network and by January it will be more than 1,000 pharmacies where you're able to book your COVID-19 vaccination right now it's 500 and that is a significant expansion in addition to all the work we're doing so the short answer is we are I think we're making the test more than we expected to do and we're going to continue to do that we have an outstanding person leading our effort Dr. Penny Ballum and spoke to her today and just tell you that everybody in health care and it's no easy thing for community pharmacy as well which has also rolled out 1.3 million dose flu vaccine campaign in the same period it's a huge effort for everybody but I think people are delivering at a very high level isn't he have a follow-up yes so is it supply or infrastructure or staff that's impeding the rollout well first of all we're doing 35% better than we announced we do October 26 to the end of the year that's what we're doing so the rollout is advancing and it is being speeded up and we're expanding the capacity of the system and the community pharmacy so that is what's happening this is not an issue of supply but remember the supply of people to get their booster dose and so the number of people who had first and second doses early in the pandemic and we are giving priority to those who are most vulnerable why because we saw breakthrough cases in long-term care in hospitals and in hospitals and in long-term care and we gave priority to our elders and as a result this isn't people who might be vaccinated this isn't an announcement of people getting vaccinated 60% of people all those over 70 have received their third dose immunization that number is obviously growing every day and will continue to grow so the campaigns are really effective really strong I'm really proud of our teams for delivering on it I'm really proud of our community pharmacists who are going to add significantly to that so this is an issue of delivering for those who are eligible and that's what we're doing and delivering it in a way that maximizes their protection against COVID-19 you're right we didn't know about Omicron when we announced on October 26 but Omicron makes what we announced and our decision to go forward on October 26 and the way we went forward which is addressing the most vulnerable first it certainly supports that Next question Thank you for this Minister I just want to I don't seem to have heard this the numbers we thought yesterday were apparently from Sunday do we have updated numbers how many cases there are and how many are in the interior and where in the interior I don't think we'd be that precise necessarily but we'll have more numbers tomorrow but I think suffice to say Ontario I think suggested that we go through a different a slightly different and less comprehensive method of testing to estimate I think they suggested that they had in the neighbourhood of 30% of the 1900 cases they had in Ontario or the 1850 cases they had in Ontario about 30% of them or roughly 600 to 700 cases were Omicron these were cumulative cases so I think we announced 44 yesterday that was cumulative and we'll have numbers by health authorities for you tomorrow Do you have a follow up No that's fine Thank you Next question Hi thank you for taking my question I'm following up on the numbers of Omicron in the province right now can you give us a better picture of what the actual leg in reporting is given that the most recent number was 44 confirmed as of December 12th is that cases from samples up until December 12th that have been confirmed in the days since or is that cases that have been sequenced and confirmed up until December 12th I'm just trying to get a sense of how long the genomic sequencing process takes from the moment of a positive test and where we might be in that trajectory I don't think it's a lag here's what's happened everybody who tests positive for COVID-19 every test of the case test positive goes through the whole genomic sequencing process now every case so in every one of those cases they've tested positive for COVID-19 the only remaining question is whether it's the delta variant of concern which is still the overwhelming number in the province that is the 1% of variants identified you saw in the modeling yesterday the only question is everyone has to do what they have to do and you get diagnosed with COVID-19 in terms of isolation so everyone knows that and then all of them go through everyone in BC and no province none in Canada has the capacity that we have for whole genome sequencing they go through that process and where there are potential clusters that go through that urgent process but essentially they go through right away and then there's a turnaround and we identify that at the individual level which is the important thing what we're going to start to do because there's a demand for this clearly Moira in the media and I think from the public as well is to provide that in our daily updates of cases so yesterday it was provided and you're going to see that provided in future in our daily updates so you don't have to ask the question so it's not an issue of there being a lot of questions at all it's just the overall reporting across health authorities centrally and then providing that information to the public and I've heard you that you want that every day and we're going to provide that every day Moira do you have a follow-up? Thank you Minister I appreciate that however my question you didn't answer my question about from the moment of the positive test how long does the genome sequencing take to then show up in the daily and also you said there may be updated health orders coming soon what's on the table or where can British Columbians expect to see measures targeted in the coming days? With respect I think I answered the question that when people test positive they're in the COVID numbers and we've been providing numbers on variants of concern on a weekly basis and with respect to Omicron because of the interest we're going to start providing them on a daily basis and eventually every positive test is now goes through whole genomic sequencing the turnaround is fairly rapid and what we'll maybe try and do is with some of the experts who do that maybe give you some insight into that process or perhaps with a pool camera or other means to show people what happens what that process is I think it's really important to demystify this and also to recognize the exceptional work of the BCCDC in providing this to British Columbians it's truly a remarkable thing turnarounds quick but remember for the individual involved that's not the important question the individual involved it's the test positive for COVID-19 and that's reported as it is regularly so we report yesterday's numbers today and tomorrow's numbers and today's numbers tomorrow. We have time for one more question we'll go to Liam Britton and if we can get answers to these questions in English and French. First of all, Ontario is tracking the R value for Omicron infections currently sitting around four yesterday's presser didn't make mention of the R value are we currently tracking that for Omicron specifically in BC and why or why not? The reason is that the R value that you saw today and you saw that is I think that the RT and BC was 1.02 across the province it was under one in Fraser Health and Northern Health I think over one in the other three health authorities and you see a little bit of that trajectory reflected in the case counts in Vancouver coastal health. For the R number to become statistically significant you can provide it with the R number and that's why we provide the R number for COVID-19. I want to say this the delta variant for people who are unvaccinated has proven to be vicious and so the Omicron variant of concern is of concern you're not going to get any kind of reasonable there's nothing to analyze yet in terms of the Omicron variant concern in terms of an R that it wouldn't be useful information but the information that was provided is very useful it tells us where the R number was yesterday but we're obviously seeing especially on Vancouver Island and especially in Vancouver coastal health an upward trajectory and test positivity across all variants of concern and that's reflected in the R number and certainly was reflected in the case counts today. The R T in the total of protection of COVID-19 it's a number yesterday it was the order of 1.02 all over the province a little higher on the Vancouver Coastal Health Vancouver Coastal Health and inside of the region less higher in the north fortunately and in the Fraser Health region and so we see this so there's enough information enough to produce a number of R T which is legitimate and so it's the one that we gave we can't really use this technique for this number with only 44 it's the same thing in Ontario what they're I think trying to evoke with that in Ontario is how fast it's growing in Ontario and 30% of the cases when it was zero two weeks ago is a very fast growing circumstance there and as I understand it from their briefings today it's soon to become the dominant variant of concern so you don't need an R number to know it's growing rapidly and it is here in BC as well not as fast but fast enough and Liam do you have a follow-up? Yes I do and again in English and French please for people who aren't traveling abroad for the holidays can they expect their holiday plans in BC to remain intact until the new year? Can we say for sure that private gatherings will not be impacted by any coming health recommendations? Will there be restrictions on traveling between health authorities or from visitors from different households? The decision to bring in health measures is taken of course very seriously by the provincial health officer and by regional medical officers of health across our province who are all outstanding leaders and they understand the consequences of it and we all do let's face it last Christmas and last holiday season and last New Year's Eve was profoundly affected by COVID-19 and the last thing anyone wants to hear is that this Christmas is going to happen and this New Year's Eve and all of the events around it and New Year's Day and all of the events around it and all the different significant holidays are going to be affected by it and no one wants to hear that but I think we just have to be frank about it and Dr Henry was yesterday that people have to exercise caution and so the federal government has been clear and given this it's strong counsel not to travel internationally I'm telling you that the Omicron variant of concern is soon to become and we say changing health orders and other jurisdictions the major variant of concern the dominant variant of concern in the province of Ontario that numbers are growing here in BC and so people need to be cautious and prudent when they travel and be respectful of the places they travel to and whether we're traveling internationally or within BC and we say that knowing how challenging this is for people that this is the time of year and especially after this year that we've had and in health care that includes hundreds of long-term care residents who are still living away from their homes who all of whom have significant health issues living away from their homes because of the recent floods and landslides and so this has been a tough year and so I understand and we want to be with the ones we love at Christmas and I understand but we have to be prudent and that means I would suggest to people that instead of going to parties where they don't know people that they keep it close they keep it with the ones that are vaccinated and if they're not vaccinated I can tell you don't travel at all my French is the same it's very difficult because everyone in our province has suffered a lot last year and no one wanted that there was a situation like this this year but in the world there is this truth of COVID-19 of the Omicron that starts to have its influence in our country and around the world so we have to be prudent so my advice for everyone is to stay aware of this and not participate in events that are not organized or that don't know people or that don't know people that are not vaccinated or that don't know people that are not vaccinated or not to stay prudent and that's my advice there will be changes and I think in public health rules in the coming weeks because we have to spread to protect people and to celebrate a way where people are protected as much as possible and that's what we're going to do and we will have more to say about that in the coming days. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes today's availability.


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A group of NGOs have called on the federal government to ask a amount of urgency to declare a state of emergency on flooding in the country and also urge the federal government to provide relief materials for victims as well as take proactive steps to forestall future occurrences. Emmanuel Higene completes this report. A group of NGOs have lent their voices to the incidents of flooding in many parts of the country and particularly Kogi State, where 160 communities were submerged underwater with many killed and displaced many and properties worth millions of Naira destroyed. According to the leader of the group, Ene Ubi, these floods are coming amid concerns by the United Nations and the World Bank that 19.4 million Nigerians across 21 states and FCT could face food insecurity starting from August 2022. So I think we're having one of the worst times and in 31 states, that's a huge emergency. How many meetings are going on in the government circles about this emergency now? This is because we're raising, it is an emergency. The attention we pay to life, the dignity of life itself is overwhelming. The group also called on the federal government to act fast by providing relief materials for victims and the states affected as well as take proactive steps to forestall future occurrences. We are dealing with extreme level of deprivation of human physically. We are talking about people not even having places to sleep. We have to lie down because there is no way to lie down. So people have been standing for days and including children and women and including pregnant women. Back then, to make it worse, we are talking of people doing this at least. So it's difficult to use the press conference of this meeting to give you a breakdown of the enormity of what's going on in this year. It's a responsibility not just to the federal government but also the state government and even the local government. We're hearing stories about many communities displaced and no one spoke of this moment to their aid. In number of organizations are already responding. For instance, we said it is doing a couple of things at the moment. We've already responded to a few communities. We've responded to the plan to the communities. We are responding in super cool. We are responding to a few communities as well. But whatever this facility is doing or actually doing or planning or care is doing cannot amount to what if the federal government takes this necessary action. You know, what result to call the country. I think what is important here today, you know, quality is that it's about our humanity. If we are concerned about people like us, we need to take certain actions and we all have a responsibility in this. Over 790,254 have been displaced so far with 600 deaths recorded across the country according to the statistics gathered so far. Rivers, Niger and Benui broke their banks every year from the shedding of excess water from Lakdodam in Cameroon. Leading to severe flooding and Kogi state is usually the worst hit.


Chinese company Uptech has created Alpha Robot, a new intelligent robot companion used for everyday needs. We are specializing in intelligent robotics home service robot. The company was established three years ago, but we do the recession development for over six years, and that is since 2008, we do the recession. The system is installed in the Alpha second generation, and it's quite a flat open platform to every software developer. I think it's kind of a mobile terminal, another mobile terminal. People who are interested in control robot products can use their own software and install in our robots and let robots do whatever they want. Robot basically can sing and dance, and you can use your voice command to order everything and other things that you can do. He is a companion and a partner and your friend. You can talk with him and share your experience. Robot is available right now in China, and it's online or we have retail distributors in China. Now we are launching a new product in the US and Europe as well as around the globe. California based company Double Robotics designed a robot that can have your face on it, yet with a very different bottom. Double Robotics is a telepresence robot company. So what we do is we make a device that allows you to have a robotic double in some other location. Personally, I live in New York, but I work in California every day. I have a robot with my name on it, and I can go to meetings, talk to my boss, hang out at the water cooler, whatever I want to do, it's like I'm there, but I'm not physically there. It's basically a segue on a stick with an iPad on top. It's relatively simple, so it's a gyroscope that keeps it balanced, and then you can actually raise the iPad up and down. The iPad handles all the communication and the video, so my face is on the robot in California. Home, it's either the arrow keys on your keyboard or on an iPad or an iPhone. It's just up, down, left, right. My favorite one so far is I helped in Stanford. There was a hospital that has a school in the hospital, and a 14-year-old girl who had heart problems couldn't go to school, even though it's a short distance away, because she was tied to her bed. So they had the unit in the school. She had the iPad at her bed, and she could go to class, she could meet other kids who were in the hospital with her, and she could experience school without actually having to move. It didn't endanger health, it didn't change how she did it, but she could participate. She had a range of emotions that she didn't have before, which was great. These intelligent robots are coming our way in 2015, and soon we might all have a robot friend of our own. Reporting from Las Vegas, I'm Justin Soto.