COVID-19 A reminder that the province has shifted to its summer data release schedule: only wastewater data will be published weekly; other data will come out on the first Thursday of the month. Wastewater Wastewater is trundling along at low-but-not-quite-zero levels, sometimes going up a little, sometimes going down a little. 💩💧 From Jeff’s wastewater… Continue reading 2026-05-22 BC
Author: Ducky
2026-05-22 General
COVID-19 Long COVID 💊🎉 This paper from Japan (2026-05-15) reports that outpatients with confirmed COVID-19 who took ensitrelvir/Xocova were 14% less likely to get Long COVID than controls who took placebos. Patients who took molnupiravir had a 19% lower risk, but the change in risk was not statistically significant for nirmatrelvir+ritonavir/Paxlovid. (Editor’s Note: Xocova has… Continue reading 2026-05-22 General
2026-05-15 BC
COVID-19 A reminder that the province has shifted to its summer data release schedule: only wastewater data will be published weekly; other data will come out on the first Thursday of the month. Wastewater 💩💧 From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet with data through 2026-05-03: Hantavirus Transmission Four of the Canadians on the MV Hondius ship are… Continue reading 2026-05-15 BC
2026-05-15 General
COVID-19 Long COVID This paper from Japan (2026-05-08) reports that Long COVID rates dropped from Delta to Omicron/2022 to Omicron/2024, in both children and adults: Note that most people with Long COVID symptoms got better relatively quickly, but it then plateaued: if you weren’t better after ten months, you weren’t likely to be better at… Continue reading 2026-05-15 General
2026-05-08 BC
The province says this is the last weekly data update until Fall (except for wastewater). The Viral Respiratory Outcomes page and the Pathogen Characterization pages will be updated on the first Thursday of the month. Vaccines According to this social media post (2026-05-07), there have been some trouble with the vaccine reservation system. You can… Continue reading 2026-05-08 BC
2026-05-08 General
COVID-19 Long COVID This conference presentation (which I think is from China) (2026-05-03) reports that SIM01, a mix of pre- and probiotics, significantly helped Long COVID patients compared to placebo. SIM01 reduced fatigue, insomnia, memory loss, and shortness of breath. (Unfortunately, there’s very little details or information, so this is only slightly more convincing than… Continue reading 2026-05-08 General
2026-05-01 BC
The province says this is the last weekly data update until Fall (except for wastewater). The Viral Respiratory Outcomes page and the Pathogen Characterization pages will be updated on the first Thursday of the month. Vaccines I have gotten mixed messages about the Spring COVID-19 vaccinations. A friend of mine in Fraser who is over… Continue reading 2026-05-01 BC
2026-05-01 General
COVID-19 Vaccines ❌ The acting head of the US CDC, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, blocked publication of a paper in the US CDC’s weekly (and highly respected) journal. It is hugely unusual for a paper to get blocked like that by a high official (probably unprecedented, though I don’t know all of the US CDC’s history),… Continue reading 2026-05-01 General
2026-04-24 BC
Hospital System I missed it when it came out, but as this press release (2025-12-05) describes, the province is going to centralize certain health care administration tasks. Instead of each Health Authority having their own legal, supply chain, finance and human resources, those are all going to be consolidated into one standalone shared services organization,… Continue reading 2026-04-24 BC
2026-04-24 General
COVID-19 Long COVID This long article (2026-04-21) on transauricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) talks a little bit about how some long haulers experimenting with (non-approved) taVNS self-treatment have found relief from taVNS, but the article talks even more about how it has negative effects for some long haulers. (TL;DR: be careful about your experimenting with… Continue reading 2026-04-24 General