Health Care System
This article (2026-03-16) says that BC has poached hired 414 healthcare workers from the USA in the past year. Thank you, Tod Maffin!
Charts
From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 5 Mar 2026 with data through 28 Feb 2026).
From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:
Absolutely every single pathogen’s reported case numbers dropped this week.
In the most recent data (ending 14 March 2026) as reported on 19 Mar 2026, among influenza-like illness (i.e respiratory diseases) cases that the province has test data for:
- 30.7% were influenza A or B (mostly B);
- 27.8% were RSV;
- 11.6% were COVID-19;
- 10.1% were entero/rhinoviruses;
- 8.5% were metapneumonia viruses;
- 7.5% were “common cold” coronaviruses;
- 1.9% were parainfluenza;
- 1.8% were adenoviruses.
Wastewater
Wastewater is fluctuating short-term, but the medium-term looks pretty stable.
💩💧 From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
