Health Care System This article (2026-03-16) says that BC has poached hired 414 healthcare workers from the USA in the past year. Thank you, Tod Maffin! Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 5 Mar 2026 with data through 28 Feb 2026). From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Absolutely every single pathogen’s reported case… Continue reading 2026-03-20 BC
Author: Ducky
2026-03-20 General
This week’s post is short. That happens sometimes. There just was not very much material that seemed appropriate/worthwhile this week. Multiple Pathogens Transmission 😲 This paper with data from three countries and regions over three years (2026-03-14) reports that an influenza A infection decreases your risk of COVID-19 by 94.24%(!) for five weeks. On the… Continue reading 2026-03-20 General
2026-03-13 BC
You’ll be glad to know that Dr. Bonnie Henry has declared an end to respiratory virus season (2026-03-06) :-/. Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 5 Mar 2026 with data through 28 Feb 2026). From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Flu A is down, Flu B is up, and COVID-19 is pretty much… Continue reading 2026-03-13 BC
2026-03-13 General
COVID-19 Long COVID A question that I get asked surprisingly frequently is, “but hasn’t Long COVID decreased a lot?” and I surprisingly didn’t have really good evidence either way to point to. Well, now I have something: this review paper (2026-03-10) reports that Long COVID prevalence was 35.5% in the pre-Omicron era and is 22.8%… Continue reading 2026-03-13 General
2026-03-06 BC
Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 5 Mar 2026 with data through 28 Feb 2026). From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Last week, I said that I had never seen flu so low, that I thought it must be a data error? Um, yeah, about that? It was a data error: Dyslexic me… Continue reading 2026-03-06 BC
2026-03-06 General
Multiple Pathogens Vaccines 💉👃 I know I am repeating myself, but there is something extraordinary going on that I want to repeat/summarize. I have talked about “universal vaccines” which work by revving up the immune system in isolation, but I want to point out that there are THREE nasal “universal vaccines” that have had animal… Continue reading 2026-03-06 General
2026-02-28 BC
Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 26 Feb 2026 with data through 21 Feb 2026). From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Influenza A has fallen so far that part of me wonders if there’s a data error. I’ve never seen it in single digits before, even in the summertime. Addendum 2026-03-05: Dyslexic me… Continue reading 2026-02-28 BC
2026-02-28 General
Multiple Pathogens Vaccines 🎉🎉🎉👃🐁 You might have read articles like this one (2026-02-19) about this paper (2026-02-19) reporting the development of a nasal spray that protected mice for at least three months from a lot of different respiratory diseases, including SARS1, COVID-19, a bat coronavirus, and at least two bacteria. It even quieted reactions to… Continue reading 2026-02-28 General
2026-02-20 BC
Charts From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Flu is definitely still going down. Everything else is making small enough moves that it’s hard to tell if it’s noise or part of a trend. In the most recent data (ending 14 Feb 2026) as reported on 19 Feb 2026, among influenza-like illness (i.e respiratory diseases) cases… Continue reading 2026-02-20 BC
2026-02-20 General
Multiple Pathogens This report from Spain (2026-02-19) says that 8.8% of hospitalized patients got a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) and they were about twice as likely to die as patients who did not get an HAI. The authors think at least half of those are preventable. The authors note that there are three times as many… Continue reading 2026-02-20 General