It’s been hard recently to distinguish “line going up” on the charts from random noise, but this week it looks pretty clear that COVID-19 levels are going up. Cases are up slightly, wastewater is definitely going up in Fraser. It was too good to last, I guess. 🙁 Vaccine Clinics If you want a COVID-19… Continue reading 2025-05-03 BC
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2025-03-28 BC
🎉🎉🎉 This is really amazing. There are only about 40 people in hospital with COVID-19 right now. The count hasn’t been that low literally since Alpha hit! I suspect that partly this is from less testing, partly because of vaccines, partly because the treatments have gotten better, and partly because the number of cases really… Continue reading 2025-03-28 BC
2024-10-12 BC
Politics This article (2024-10-06) reports that the Conservative candidate for BC Premier, John Rustad seems to be open to the idea of punishing — possibly harshly — public health officials, doctors, police, and politicians for implementing various COVID-19 mitigation measures (particularly vaccinations). This is some dark and scary shit. However, in this video, Rustad says… Continue reading 2024-10-12 BC
2024-09-07 BC
Cases are rising in the short term but kind of flat over a longer period. Positivity is creeping upwards, and the number in hospital is rising slowly. Wastewater is going up slowly in Fraser Health, flattish everywhere else. Anecdotally, lots of people “have a cold” right now. (It’s not “a cold”, it’s COVID-19, as I… Continue reading 2024-09-07 BC
2024-04-19 BC
Levels are falling down pretty quickly! Yay for weather nice enough to open windows! Vaccines I have a friend who lives in BC but outside the core metro areas — not rural, but not The Big City. Because of some unusual medical conditions, Friend has really bad reactions to the mRNA vaccines. Friend thus tried… Continue reading 2024-04-19 BC
2024-04-12 BC
Well, after some nice drops in COVID-19 levels recently, it looks like we’ve gone back up — which is probably noise. But it looks stagnant at best. 🙁 Mitigation Measures This BC Ministry of Health press release says that masks are no longer required in health care settings. A lot of places weren’t masking or… Continue reading 2024-04-12 BC
2023-12-01 BC
All the indicators are trending down. This is good! Statistics As of 30 Nov, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 25 Nov there were: +370 reported cases, +126 hospital admissions, +24 ICU admissions, and +14 thirty-day all-cause deaths*. In the week ending 18 Nov, they now report that there were +363… Continue reading 2023-12-01 BC
2023-11-03 BC
COVID-19 levels have still not gotten down to where we were in summer 2023, but pretty much all the indicators say that they are falling. Vaccines This article reports that 528,575 people — slightly over 10% of BC residents — have gotten a fall COVID-19 booster. 740,529 have gotten flu shots. It also says that… Continue reading 2023-11-03 BC
2023-10-03 BC
Transmission It seems like almost all public health doctors talk about COVID-19 as being part of “respiratory season”, and that cases go up “as we congregate indoors”. Some people talk about cases going up when school is in session. But looking at the historical data for BC, I see no evidence for that. I have… Continue reading 2023-10-03 BC
2023-03-02 BC
Vaccines Confirming what I said last week, this press release from the Ministry of Health says that the infant Moderna they have on hand will expire on March 8. They say they expect to get more somewhere around 11 April. HOWEVER, unlike what I told you last week, BC says that you can substitute Pfizer… Continue reading 2023-03-02 BC