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 19 Mar 2026 with data through 14 Mar 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:
