Influenza still hasn’t peaked. It’s not at record levels, but it’s close — and it is still going up. Meanwhile, measles. 🙁 Measles ‼️‼️ ALERT! This article (2025-02-16) reports that there is a measles case in Fraser which came in on Air Canada Flight 66, arriving from Bangkok Feb 11. Reminder: if you were vaccinated… Continue reading 2025-02-21 BC
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2025-02-15 BC
Flu is still going up, but more slowly. RSV is still slowly slowly going down, COVID-19 is holding steady or maybe going down… but there were almost no COVID-19 deaths this week! (Or the Province’s reporting is messed up, that’s always possible.) Charts From the BC CDC Situation Report: Comparison vs. Other Influenza-Like-Illnesses, from the… Continue reading 2025-02-15 BC
2025-01-07 BC
COVID-19 levels are still lower than it’s been in a long time. Flu levels, on the other hand, are still going up. Charts From the BC CDC Situation Report: Comparison vs. Other Influenza-Like-Illnesses, from the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Holy cow, was I wrong about influenza being over*! It is WAY higher than it was… Continue reading 2025-01-07 BC
2025-01-31 BC
There is a lot of respiratory illness going around, but right now, it looks like only about 6% of it is COVID-19! The last time there were so few people in hospital with COVID-19 was August 2023, and there haven’t been as few weekly confirmed cases since before testing was severely curtailed during the big… Continue reading 2025-01-31 BC
2025-01-25 BC
Everything COVID looks low-ish. Not gone, not low on an absolute scale, but definitely low on a relative scale. For example, while the lowest number in hospital with COVID-19 that we’ve seen since Omicron hit was ~65 (in the summer of 2023), right now we’re at about 80. Is this something special to BC, or… Continue reading 2025-01-25 BC
2025-01-18 BC
Yay! Something at the very end of this article (2025-01-17) on what the BC teen with bird flu went through says that she’s out of the hospital and back home. 🎉 Health Care System This report (2025-01-16) reports that an estimated 28,077 Canadians died while waiting for surgery or diagnostic tests between April 1, 2023… Continue reading 2025-01-18 BC
2025-01-10 BC
The province only gave numbers for flu A, flu B, RSV, and COVID-19 for the week ending 4 Jan 2025, but that’s enough to see that flu finally beat out RSV for the most prevalent respiratory disease. COVID-19 levels look still relatively low-ish, though the wastewater graph looks like they are going up slightly. Mitigation… Continue reading 2025-01-10 BC
2025-01-03 BC
RSV is significantly up, and is now slightly above last season’s peak. Flu is up significantly; COVID-19 is still low-ish but it has risen slightly. COVID-19 is only about a quarter of respiratory illnesses right now. Wastewater looks about as stable as it gets. For information about the Fraser teen who was hospitalized for bird… Continue reading 2025-01-03 BC
2024-12-20 BC
Note: The province will not give another update until 3 Jan 2025. There are about 20% more respiratory illnesses than were reported last week. However, they also increased last week’s figures, so this week is about the same as what they now say we had last week. 🙁 The COVID-19 numbers don’t get revised as… Continue reading 2024-12-20 BC
2024-12-13 BC
COVID-19 keeps going down! All the numbers (yes, including wastewater) are almost as low as they were 18 months ago. (COVID-19 is NOT “seasonal”!) RSV is up, and is still the most common respiratory infection. Flu is rising a bit more quickly than it had been, but it still is at a pretty low level.… Continue reading 2024-12-13 BC