If you didn’t read last week or the week before, let me warn you that flu season is TWO MONTHS early this year. The Oct 3 levels of flu were similar to what we usually see in late November/early December.
COVID-19 is definitely going up. I was hoping that this season would be mild, since for the past few years the summer wave had already peaked, but no such luck this year.
Vaccines
The province has finally announced (2026-10-07) that the fall vaccine campaign has started. It does say that the general public probably won’t get to get shots until November (which I bet is going to be on the edge of too late!)
The article says that they have been offering free one-time RSV shots to vulnerable seniors who haven’t gotten it yet, but because they started earlier than they were planning, they have somewhat limited quantities at the moment. More doses are coming.
The article quotes Dr. Henry as saying the flu and COVID-19 shots are available to anyone over six months old.
Charts
From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 1 October 2026 with data through 26 September):
From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page with data up to 3 October, as reported on 8 October:
Reminder: the graph above is positivity, not case count. The COVID-19 case counts have been going up faster than the positivity.
Here’s fluA by itself:
COVID-19 is also rising, and has decided to get serious about it.
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:
- 46.0% were influenza A or B (almost exclusively A);
- 27.3% were COVID-19;
- 21.7% were entero/rhinoviruses;
- 2.1% were parainfluenza;
- 1.2% were adenoviruses;
- 0.8% were metapneumonia viruses;
- 0.4% were RSV;
- 0.5% were “common cold” coronaviruses.
Wastewater
💩💧 Here’s Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet from last week, with data through 27 September 2026:
