COVID-19 and fluA are both going up pretty sharply.
Vaccines
At least four friends of mine who are not elderly got a flu vaccine and/or a COVID-19 vaccine this week. They all said that they went through the province’s Get Vaccinated web site, so I guess they aren’t making younger people wait for the older people to get vaccinated.
Go get your flu vax! And maybe your COVID-19 vax also.
Charts
From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 15 October 2026 with data through 10 October):
From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page with data up to 10 October, as reported on 15 October:
Note that the counts for a given specific week usually go up a little bit in the next week. For example, this week, the count of flu cases in the week ending 3 Oct jumped to 496 from the 441 reported last week.
This means that the line on the graph might look like it’s “tipping over” / the rate of increase is going down when it might not actually be slowing down.
Interestingly, flu and COVID-19 are both going up, together, steeply right now. Flu and COVID-19 were not in sync in the previous three flu seasons.
Here’s fluA by itself:
Here’s COVID-19 by itself:
In the most recent data (ending 3 October 2026) as reported on 8 October 2026, among respiratory virus cases that the province has test data for:
- 53.3% were influenza A or B (almost exclusively A);
- 27.5% were COVID-19;
- 15.3% were entero/rhinoviruses;
- 1.3% were RSV;
- 1.0% were parainfluenza;
- 1.0% were adenoviruses;
- 0.6% were metapneumonia viruses;
- 0.2% were “common cold” coronaviruses.
Wastewater
💩💧 Here’s the past-year graph from Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet, with data through 4 October 2026:
