COVID-19
Vaccines
Other provinces have announced the particulars of their Spring 2026 COVID-19 vaccination campaign, but BC has not said anything yet. Last year, this press release (2025-03-28) announced that the spring campaign would start on 8 April 2025. This year, crickets so far.
This article (2026-04-10) reports that childhood vaccination rates have been dropping in BC for some time. The article says that it started at about the time that COVID-19 hit, but if you look at the charts in the article, it’s been dropping since at least 2015.
Charts
From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 2 April 2026 with data through 28 Feb 2026).
From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:
COVID-19 has gone up a small amount in the past two weeks, but I suspect that’s just noise. Everything else fell or stayed the same.
In the most recent data (ending 28 March 2026) as reported on 2 April 2026, among influenza-like illness (i.e respiratory diseases) cases that the province has test data for:
- 29.7% were influenza A or B (mostly B);
- 27.9% were RSV;
- 11.8% were COVID-19;
- 9.3% were metapneumonia viruses;
- 7.7% were entero/rhinoviruses;
- 9.8% were “common cold” coronaviruses;
- 2.3% were adenoviruses;
- 1.4% were parainfluenza.
Wastewater
Jeff says that the wastewater values are lower are in about the longest low period now than they have been since Omicron hit.
💩💧 From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
H5N1
Do you remember the ostrich cull mess which went on and on and on? This article (2026-04-10) makes a very strong case that there was nothing special about the ostriches, that the farm owners were just grifting on the publicity.