2025-03-21 BC

Influenza B is going up, but the level of total influenza is now definitely coming down — as is basically everything else except Entero/rhinoviruses, which are merely holding steady. Even COVID-19 is down, too. Yay spring!

Charts

From the BC CDC Situation Report:


Comparison vs. Other Influenza-Like-Illnesses, from the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:

In the most recent data (ending 15 March) as reported on 20 March 2025, among influenza-like illness (i.e upper respiratory diseases) cases the province has test data for:

  • 49.28% were influenza A or B;
  • 14.55% were RSV;
  • 3.99% were COVID-19;
  • 6.76% were entero/rhinoviruses;
  • 4.76% were “common cold” coronaviruses;
  • 3.80% were metapneumonia viruses;
  • adenoviruses and parainfluenza were under 3%.

Wastewater

From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet: