All of the tracked respiratory illnesses are on the decline or stable at low levels, including COVID-19. Charts From the BC CDC Situation Report: Comparison vs. Other Influenza-Like-Illnesses, from the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: In the most recent data (ending 12 April) as reported on 17 April 2025, among influenza-like illness (i.e upper respiratory diseases)… Continue reading 2025-04-18 BC
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2025-04-11 BC
Influenza is still here but keeps dropping; COVID-19 levels are pretty much static. Mpox This article (2025-04-08) says that mpox cases are ticking up, and the province is urging people in high-risk groups to get an mpox vaccination.. Most of the cases have been men who have sex with men, mostly in Vancouver Health. Charts… Continue reading 2025-04-11 BC
2025-04-04 BC
I have been trying to understand why COVID-19 levels have been so low in BC for so long. Levels were r-e-l-a-t-i-v-e-l-y stable for since late October 2023, moving between ~270 cases/week (in April 2024) and ~630 cases/week (in October 2024) for all that time. But starting in October 2024, cases went down steadily, until last… Continue reading 2025-04-04 BC
2025-03-28 BC
🎉🎉🎉 This is really amazing. There are only about 40 people in hospital with COVID-19 right now. The count hasn’t been that low literally since Alpha hit! I suspect that partly this is from less testing, partly because of vaccines, partly because the treatments have gotten better, and partly because the number of cases really… Continue reading 2025-03-28 BC
2025-03-21 BC
Influenza B is going up, but the level of total influenza is now definitely coming down — as is basically everything else except Entero/rhinoviruses, which are merely holding steady. Even COVID-19 is down, too. Yay spring! Charts From the BC CDC Situation Report: Comparison vs. Other Influenza-Like-Illnesses, from the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: In the… Continue reading 2025-03-21 BC
2025-03-15 BC
Flu is definitely going down, finally. COVID-19 levels are still surprisingly low compared to most other points in the pandemic. Charts From the BC CDC Situation Report: Comparison vs. Other Influenza-Like-Illnesses, from the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: In the most recent data (ending 8 March) as reported on 13 March 2025, among influenza-like illness (i.e… Continue reading 2025-03-15 BC
2025-03-07 BC
COVID-19 levels are still quite low compared to other points in the pandemic (and insanely high compared to pre-pandemic). Flu mayyybe is starting to taper off. Measles There are new measles cases in BC, in addition to the one we had last month. This article (2025-02-06) reports on the first case; this article reports (2025-02-07)… Continue reading 2025-03-07 BC
2025-03-01 BC
Influenza is still going up! Most indicators say that COVID is still slowly trending down, but the number in hospital (which is what I consider one the most meaningful measures) is slowly going up. Charts From the BC CDC Situation Report: Note: don’t get too excited about the approximately zero deaths: there were zero deaths… Continue reading 2025-03-01 BC
2025-02-21 BC
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
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