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
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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
2025-06-01 General
COVID-19 Variants 🦠🧬 NB.1.8.1 is still causing a lot of cases in Asia and Australia. It has acquired two nicknames: “NimBus” (from the two letters in its designation) and “Razor Blade Throat” because it apparently feels like you’ve been swallowing razor blades. Long COVID 🩸‼️ This preprint using UK participants (2025-05-26) has a potential explanation… Continue reading 2025-06-01 General
2025-05-24 General
COVID-19 Variants Other people are starting to notice all the cases in Asia. This article from USA (2025-05-23) says that CDC has discovered a bunch of cases of NB.1.8.1 — the variant which is causing havoc in Asia — in wastewater arriving in planes from abroad. I know, I know, the US is not Canada,… Continue reading 2025-05-24 General
2025-05-18 General
COVID-19 COVID cases are still low in BC, but rising slightly. As a heads up, Taiwan (2025-05-13), Singapore (2025-05-13), Hong Kong (2025-05-15) Vietnam (2025-05-14), Thailand (2025-05-10) and Iran (2025-05-12) are noting an increase in cases. Long COVID 🎉🎉🎉 This paper from Italy (2025-04-27) reports that people with Long COVID have more abnormalities (microhemorrhages, dilations, and… Continue reading 2025-05-18 General