Healthcare System
This article (2026-05-31) says that 23% of BC residents do not have a primary care provider, and that this is higher than when the NDP took over in 2017.
That’s interesting, because the province put out this press release a while ago (2026-04-01) which reported that 223,000 people (~4% of BC residents) were matched to a primary care provider in 2025 alone.
The only thing that make sense of both claims is if the number of people with a primary care provider got way worse for a while between 2017 and 2024.
Charts
From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 7 May 2026 with data through 2 May):
From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:
COVID-19 is still incredibly low — by case count, hospitalizations, wastewater, everything. Entero/rhinovirus is still at a moderate level, but it stays moderate throughout the summer. RSV and FluB are falling fast, everything else is already really low. (RSV are also low, just not really low.)
In the most recent data (ending 30 May 2026) as reported on 4 June 2026, among influenza-like illness (i.e respiratory diseases) cases that the province has test data for:
- 39.9% were entero/rhinoviruses;
- 19.3% were RSV;
- 18.1% were influenza A or B (mostly B);
- 10.1% were parainfluenza;
- 8.1% were COVID-19;
- 4.8% were adenoviruses;
- 6.0% were “common cold” coronaviruses;
- 3.6% were metapneumonia viruses.
Wastewater
💩💧 From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet with data through 2026-05-17:
