This week, the Situation Report warned that the data might be incomplete and might change. This has obviously been true for a long time, but I don’t remember them warning about it so prominently. I don’ t know if the warning means that this week’s report is especially incomplete or not.
Other Respiratory Illness
There were slight upticks in respiratory illnesses, both in BC and in the US. Maybe it’s noise, but it’s a little odd that it’s happening in the US too. From the BC CDC Viral Pathogen dashboard:
From the US CDC’s FluView Dashboard:
Statistics
As of 1 Feb, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 27 Jan there were: +494 reported cases, +102 hospital admissions, +16 ICU admissions, and +14 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
In the week ending 20 Jan, they now report that there were +423 reported cases, +141 hospital admissions, +29 ICU admissions, and +30 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
For comparison, in the previous update (2024-01-26) they reported that for the week ending on 20 Jan there were: +413 reported cases, +107 hospital admissions, +25 ICU admissions, and +13 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.
*All-cause deaths in people who had a positive COVID-19 test in the prior 30 days, that is.
There were 182 people in hospital and 14 in critical care with COVID-19 on 1 February.
Charts
From the BC CDC Situation Report:
From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
