COVID-19 looks like it is either plateuing or going down slowly. Influenza is clearly thinking about making its move, but hasn’t yet. If you are trying to time your flu vaccination for maximum effect, it might be time to start thinking about doing do in the next few weeks. H5N1 Transmission 🐦⬛🤧 This article (2025-10-27)… Continue reading 2025-10-31 BC
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2025-10-24 BC
COVID-19 seems pretty stable at a middling level. Flu has started to make an appearance, but it’s still at quite a low level. COVID-19 Vaccines 💉 Both Spouse and I got invitations this week to get COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, so it isn’t just for people over 65! A friend of mine told me he… Continue reading 2025-10-24 BC
2025-10-18 BC
Charts From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: In the most recent data (ending 11 Oct) as reported on 16 Oct 2025, among influenza-like illness (i.e upper respiratory diseases) cases the province has test data for: Wastewater 💩💧 Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet has not been updated, through no fault of Jeff: the province did not release the… Continue reading 2025-10-18 BC
2025-10-11 BC
Vaccines 🎉🎉🎉 💉 Well, I was wrong in how I interpreted the PHAC vaccine guidance! This article (2025-10-06) says that every BC resident over 6 months old in BC can get a COVID vax! They are doing the most vulnerable first; the general public should be able to start getting them in “mid-month”. I don’t… Continue reading 2025-10-11 BC
2025-10-06 BC
NB: I’m travelling this week, so a bit behind. We have gotten into respiratory illness season, so the province is providing weekly updates again, yay! The COVID-19 hospital/death charts look like maybe COVID-19 levels are going down, but the number of cases still looks like it is going up slowly. My any of the measures,… Continue reading 2025-10-06 BC
2025-09-21 BC
Vaccines Who is going to be able to get a COVID-19 vaccination in BC? As I mentioned in the 2025-08-11 post, NACI says — if I understand correctly — that higher-risk people should get two doses per year and lower-risk people (basically health people under 65) may get one dose per year. However, I’m seeing… Continue reading 2025-09-21 BC
2025-09-05 BC
The number of cases of COVID-19 reported to the province looks like it is rising. Reported cases are up,but it’s hard to tell because some of the data they usually publish is missing, the number of people with COVID-19 in the hospital is up quite a bit, and while wastewater is noisy, I can convince… Continue reading 2025-09-05 BC
2025-08-11 BC
Note: the weather has been awesome this week, so I have been spending it outdoors instead of reading research papers indoors. Thus the General post will be delayed by a few days. Meanwhile, COVID-19 appears to be holding pretty steady. About half of upper respiratory cases are COVID-19; about a quarter are entero or rhinoviruses;… Continue reading 2025-08-11 BC
2025-07-04 BC
COVID-19 levels keep rising steadily, but more slowly than I had expected, given how NB.1.8.1 hammered Asia. This chart from the Government of Canada’s COVID-19 page shows that the rise in COVID positivity is much shallower this year (blue) than in previous years. Wastewater from Fraser and Richmond are actually coming down. Maybe. (Maybe it’s… Continue reading 2025-07-04 BC
2025-06-06 BC
A number of COVID-19 indicators show the levels going up: wastewater (especially in Fraser), % positivity, # of patients in hospital, and # of hospital admissions. I don’t feel comfortable saying “cases are low” any more. I would like to remind people that: Go get your COVID-19 vaccination! Charts From the BC Viral Respiratory Outcomes… Continue reading 2025-06-06 BC