Note: against normal practice, I updated the wastewater chart and added a news article about a closed emergency room after I published this post — because of holiday strangenesses and my illness. It’s not likely to be a frequent occurrence.

I thought I was going to give a belated look at last week’s data, but the province released data today, much to my surprise. There will not be an update next week, however. Provincial updates will resume on 8 Jan.

Health System

Late addendum: This article (2025-12-23) reports that the emergency room in 100 Mile House will be closed for 25 hours from 7 a.m. Wednesday 24 Dec to 8 a.m. Thursday 25 Dec.

COVID-19

There is very little COVID-19 right now, especially compared to influenza.

Charts

From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:

Note: I suspect that the drops in flu and RSV cases in the past week are a holiday artifact.

In the most recent data (ending 20 Dec) as reported on 24 Dec 2025, among influenza-like illness (i.e respiratory diseases) cases that the province has test data for:

68.3% were influenza A or B (!!!);
11.3% were RSV;
7.6% were entero/rhinoviruses;
6.7% were COVID-19;
2.7% were parainfluenza;
1.8% were metapneumonia viruses;
1.0% were adenoviruses;
0.4% were “common cold” coronaviruses.

Wastewater

Addendum 2025-12-26 – updated chart based on yesterday’s data. 💩💧 From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet: