2026-03-06 BC

Charts

From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 5 Mar 2026 with data through 28 Feb 2026).


From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:

Last week, I said that I had never seen flu so low, that I thought it must be a data error? Um, yeah, about that? It was a data error: Dyslexic me read the week number instead of the case number. *blush* There were actually 161 flu A cases reported last week for the week ending on 21 Feb (adjusted to 163 with this week’s report).

Flu A is actually having a little uptick (even with my data error corrected). I’ve seen other jurisdictions have a second peak, so this isn’t entirely surprising to me. Disappointing, but not surprising. RSV is coming down, and COVID is just hanging around.

Note: I dropped the max y-height this week from 1500 to 600 to better show the current state

In the most recent data (ending 28 Feb 2026) as reported on 5 Mar 2026, among influenza-like illness (i.e respiratory diseases) cases that the province has test data for:

  • 30.6% were RSV;
  • 23.4% were influenza A or B;
  • 11.6% were COVID-19;
  • 8.4% were entero/rhinoviruses;
  • 7.8% were metapneumonia viruses;
  • 6.0% were “common cold” coronaviruses;
  • 1.6% were parainfluenza;
  • 0.7% were adenoviruses.

Wastewater

Fraser wastewater is definitely going up. Other treatment plants are less definitive.

💩💧 From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet: