Health Care System
This press release (2026-04-01) from the Ministry of Health says that BC has successfully poached hired 500 health care workers from the USA by now. It also says that:
- BC has the highest number of doctors per resident in Canada, at 271 doctors per 100,000 residents;
- 77% of BC residents now have a primary care physician;
- the number of nurse practitioners has tripled since 2018.
The province has also recently opened new urgent/primary care centres in PoCo (2026-03-18), UBC (2026-03-30), and Surrey (2026-04-10).
Charts
From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 16 April 2026 with data through 11 April)… except these charts look the same as last week’s charts. There’s a note that last week’s data was incomplete:
From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page:
Everything is going down or holding steady.
In the most recent data (ending 11 April 2026) as reported on 16 April 2026, among influenza-like illness (i.e respiratory diseases) cases that the province has test data for:
- 31.9% were influenza A or B (mostly B);
- 23.5% were RSV;
- 11.9% were entero/rhinoviruses;
- 10.6% were COVID-19;
- 10.6% were metapneumonia viruses;
- 5.8% were “common cold” coronaviruses;
- 3.7% were parainfluenza;
- 2.2% were adenoviruses.
Wastewater
COVID-19 wastewater concentrations continue to be low and stable.
💩💧 From Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet:
