COVID-19 keeps going down! All the numbers (yes, including wastewater) are almost as low as they were 18 months ago. (COVID-19 is NOT “seasonal”!)
RSV is up, and is still the most common respiratory infection. Flu is rising a bit more quickly than it had been, but it still is at a pretty low level.
Between flu going up and COVID-19 going down, the flu levels are now slightly higher than the COVID-19 levels.
Charts
From the BC CDC Situation Report:
Comparison vs. Other Influenza-Like-Illnesses, from the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:
RSV is the most common infection in this report.
In the week ending 7 December, among confirmed cases, there were:
- about 90% as many COVID-19 cases as flu cases,
- about 45% as many COVID-19 cases as RSV cases,
- about 75% as many COVID-19 cases as enterovirus or rhinovirus cases.
- only 22% as many COVID-19 cases as all the other influenza-like illnesses (influenza, RSV, enterovirus, rhinovirus, adenovirus, human metapneumovirus, parainfluenza, and common-cold coronaviruses) combined.
Reminder: the graphs below don’t tell how many cases there were, but how many cases they found when testing. Almost nobody gets tested — but I have no reason to believe that the percentage of sick people who get tested has changed.
Wastewater
Jeff doesn’t know what happened, but all of last week’s wastewater numbers got revised. From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
