Mitigation Measures This article (2026-03-23) reports that most Canadians thought the federal government did a good job on the pandemic. 67% of people in BC thought that the province did a good job. I would agree. Just about everybody (including me) is mad at the province’s Ministry of Health for one thing or another, but… Continue reading 2026-03-27 BC
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2026-03-27 General
Multiple Pathogens Pathology This paper from Ontario (2026-03-22) reports, to put it bluntly, that the “immunity debt” theory is hogwash. (The immunity debt theory says that the immune system is like a muscle, and requires exercise to stay in top form so when lockdown reduced exposure to pathogens, the immune system “got out of shape”.)… Continue reading 2026-03-27 General
2026-03-20 BC
Health Care System This article (2026-03-16) says that BC has poached hired 414 healthcare workers from the USA in the past year. Thank you, Tod Maffin! Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 19 Mar 2026 with data through 14 Mar 2026). From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Absolutely every single pathogen’s reported case… Continue reading 2026-03-20 BC
2026-03-20 General
This week’s post is short. That happens sometimes. There just was not very much material that seemed appropriate/worthwhile this week. Multiple Pathogens Transmission 😲 This paper with data from three countries and regions over three years (2026-03-14) reports that an influenza A infection decreases your risk of COVID-19 by 94.24%(!) for five weeks. On the… Continue reading 2026-03-20 General
2026-03-13 BC
You’ll be glad to know that Dr. Bonnie Henry has declared an end to respiratory virus season (2026-03-06) :-/. Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 12 Mar 2026 with data through 7 Mar 2026). From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Flu A is down, Flu B is up, and COVID-19 is pretty much… Continue reading 2026-03-13 BC
2026-03-13 General
COVID-19 Long COVID A question that I get asked surprisingly frequently is, “but hasn’t Long COVID decreased a lot?” and I surprisingly didn’t have really good evidence either way to point to. Well, now I have something: this review paper (2026-03-10) reports that Long COVID prevalence was 35.5% in the pre-Omicron era and is 22.8%… Continue reading 2026-03-13 General
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… Continue reading 2026-03-06 BC
2026-03-06 General
Multiple Pathogens Vaccines 💉👃 I know I am repeating myself, but there is something extraordinary going on that I want to repeat/summarize. I have talked about “universal vaccines” which work by revving up the immune system in isolation, but I want to point out that there are THREE nasal “universal vaccines” that have had animal… Continue reading 2026-03-06 General
2026-02-28 BC
Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 26 Feb 2026 with data through 21 Feb 2026). From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Influenza A has fallen so far that part of me wonders if there’s a data error. I’ve never seen it in single digits before, even in the summertime. Addendum 2026-03-05: Dyslexic me… Continue reading 2026-02-28 BC
2026-02-28 General
Multiple Pathogens Vaccines 🎉🎉🎉👃🐁 You might have read articles like this one (2026-02-19) about this paper (2026-02-19) reporting the development of a nasal spray that protected mice for at least three months from a lot of different respiratory diseases, including SARS1, COVID-19, a bat coronavirus, and at least two bacteria. It even quieted reactions to… Continue reading 2026-02-28 General