There is a lot of respiratory illness going around, but right now, it looks like only about 6% of it is COVID-19! The last time there were so few people in hospital with COVID-19 was August 2023, and there haven’t been as few weekly confirmed cases since before testing was severely curtailed during the big Omicron wave.
Culture
This article (2025-01-26) reports that a young man from Victoria wrote a symphony about the pandemic! (video)
Charts
From the BC CDC Situation Report:
Comparison vs. Other Influenza-Like-Illnesses, from the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:
Flu A numbers for last week were revised upwards significantly and this week there was a even more, so I was wrong: Flu A has not peaked. RSV still looks like it has peaked. COVID-19 really is still going down, which really surprises me.
In the most recent data (ending 25 January) as reported on 30 Jan 2025, among confirmed cases, there were:
- 11% as many COVID-19 cases as flu cases,
- 26% as many COVID-19 cases as RSV cases,
- about 82% as many COVID-19 cases as enterovirus/rhinovirus cases.
- only about 6% 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.
Wastewater
From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
