COVID-19 seems pretty stable at a middling level. Flu has started to make an appearance, but it’s still at quite a low level. COVID-19 Vaccines 💉 Both Spouse and I got invitations this week to get COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, so it isn’t just for people over 65! A friend of mine told me he… Continue reading 2025-10-24 BC
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2025-10-24 General
COVID-19 Vaccines 🎉 This isn’t about a vaccine exactly, but something that acts like a vaccine — i.e. it prevents you from getting sick. This paper from USA (2025-10-21) describes a small Phase 1 study in healthy adults of a plasmid DNA which, when injected, made the study participants’ cells make tixagevimab and cilgavimab —… Continue reading 2025-10-24 General
2025-10-18 BC
Charts From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: In the most recent data (ending 11 Oct) as reported on 16 Oct 2025, among influenza-like illness (i.e upper respiratory diseases) cases the province has test data for: Wastewater 💩💧 Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet has not been updated, through no fault of Jeff: the province did not release the… Continue reading 2025-10-18 BC
2025-10-18 General
COVID-19 Really really long COVID 🍆 This paper (2025-10-11) says that COVID-19 won’t just f you up, it’ll f your children up if you are male. They infected male mice with COVID-19 and then looked at their offspring. All of their children were exhibited more anxious behaviours than children of uninfected daddy mice. (Fortunately, the… Continue reading 2025-10-18 General
2025-10-11 BC
Vaccines 🎉🎉🎉 💉 Well, I was wrong in how I interpreted the PHAC vaccine guidance! This article (2025-10-06) says that every BC resident over 6 months old in BC can get a COVID vax! They are doing the most vulnerable first; the general public should be able to start getting them in “mid-month”. I don’t… Continue reading 2025-10-11 BC
2025-10-11 General
COVID-19 I want to mention that I have seen multiple couples — some that I know personally and some on teh socials — express shock that one half of the couple could test positive while being symptom-free or almost symptom-free while the other got their posterior kicked by COVID-19. Yes, folks, asymptomatic COVID-19 infections are… Continue reading 2025-10-11 General
2025-10-06 BC
NB: I’m travelling this week, so a bit behind. We have gotten into respiratory illness season, so the province is providing weekly updates again, yay! The COVID-19 hospital/death charts look like maybe COVID-19 levels are going down, but the number of cases still looks like it is going up slowly. My any of the measures,… Continue reading 2025-10-06 BC
2025-10-06 General
NB: I am travelling, so this is going to be shorter than normal. I have stopped talking about some things because I decided to focus (mostly) on things that are more actionable. For two examples: papers about vaccine trials or biomarkers for Long COVID. For both, it takes a looooooong time for the papers to… Continue reading 2025-10-06 General
2025-09-27 General
COVID-19 It’s a bit hard to tell what is happening with COVID-19 in BC because of the lack of data, but COVID-19 in Canada overall is definitely going up. Long COVID 🫡 This paper from the USA (2025-09-16) looked at Long COVID in active duty service members and found: COVID-Related Excess Death and Sickness 🫀💉… Continue reading 2025-09-27 General
2025-09-21 BC
Vaccines Who is going to be able to get a COVID-19 vaccination in BC? As I mentioned in the 2025-08-11 post, NACI says — if I understand correctly — that higher-risk people should get two doses per year and lower-risk people (basically health people under 65) may get one dose per year. However, I’m seeing… Continue reading 2025-09-21 BC