Reminder: the province is dropping to monthly reports, so I won’t do a weekly BC report unless there’s some major BC-specific news in either COVID-19 or H5N1.
Maybe wastewater is going up, or maybe that’s just noise. Hospitalizations continue to go down, dropping below 100 for the first time since last summer but not as low as summer 2021. (Ah, that golden time when we still thought vaccines were going to save us!)
Treatments
This web page says that the province’s Paxlovid supply is going to expire on 31 May, and the province is trying to decide if they want to offer it in the future. If you want to register an opinion, go to this web page.
Statistics
As of 2 May, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 27 April there were: +254 reported cases, +48 hospital admissions, +4 ICU admissions, and +21 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
In the week ending 20 April, they now report that there were +253 reported cases, +82 hospital admissions, +11 ICU admissions, and +15 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
For comparison, in the previous update (2024-04-26) they reported that in the week ending on 20 April there were: +252 reported cases, +70 hospital admissions, +10 ICU admissions, and +11 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
*All-cause deaths in people who had a positive COVID-19 test in the prior 30 days, that is.
There were 97 people in hospital and 9 in critical care with COVID-19 on 2 May.
Charts
From the BC CDC Situation Report:
From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
