Health Care System 😡 In last week’s post (2026-10-24), I talked about how the province was squeezing group Long COVID sessions so hard that they would probably cease to exist. A friend of mine who has contacts in the Long COVID community, suspects that the province’s motivation is to keep people from going on disability.… Continue reading 2026-10-30 BC
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2026-10-24 BC
Health Care System This article (2026-10-21) reports that the province is cutting providers’ reimbursement rates for telehealth group medical visits — kind of the only thing that people with tired-all-the-time patients (ME/CFS, Long COVID, fibromyalgia, etc.) have available to them. The province is cutting both the per-patient reimbursement and the number of patients per session… Continue reading 2026-10-24 BC
2026-10-24 General
COVID-19 Long COVID This preprint from USA (2026-10-16) reports that a subset of people with Long COVID have activated T cells targeted to COVID-19 which are activated — which before has always (or maybe almost always?) meant that there was some level of virus in the body that was activating it. In addition, their T… Continue reading 2026-10-24 General
2026-10-16 BC
COVID-19 and fluA are both going up pretty sharply. Vaccines At least four friends of mine who are not elderly got a flu vaccine and/or a COVID-19 vaccine this week. They all said that they went through the province’s Get Vaccinated web site, so I guess they aren’t making younger people wait for the older… Continue reading 2026-10-16 BC
2026-10-09 BC
If you didn’t read last week or the week before, let me warn you that flu season is TWO MONTHS early this year. The Oct 3 levels of flu were similar to what we usually see in late November/early December. COVID-19 is definitely going up. I was hoping that this season would be mild, since… Continue reading 2026-10-09 BC
2026-10-02 BC
Flu A and COVID-19 levels are both definitely going up. COVID levels have accelerated quite a bit. I guess COVID-19 is not going to peak in early October like it did for the past few years. Pity. Vaccines The province’s fall vaccination campaign has started — sort of? I heard on Oct 1 that they… Continue reading 2026-10-02 BC
2026-09-26 BC
🎉 The province has switched to their fall/winter reporting schedule, which means that they are reporting data every week now. This means I will be publishing a BC post every week. Flu season has definitely started, much earlier than it has in previous years. I suspect it’s because the southern hemisphere is having a very… Continue reading 2026-09-26 BC
2026-09-12 General
I don’t have much news for you this week. COVID-19 levels seem to be increasing around us. COVID-19 COVID-Related Excess Death and Sickness This report from Canada (2026-09-10) reports that people who self-reported having had a COVID-19 infection had a much higher risk of developing a new medical condition compared to people who said they’d… Continue reading 2026-09-12 General
2026-09-05 BC
COVID-19 levels are definitely going up, but are still pretty low compared to previous waves. Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 3 September 2026 with data through 29 August): From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page with data up to 1 July, as reported on 6 August: Most pathogens are at a really low… Continue reading 2026-09-05 BC
2026-08-07 BC
COVID-19 levels, by any measure, are very low. Case counts are rising slowly, but from a very low level. Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 6 August 2026 with data through 1 July): From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page with data up to 1 July, as reported on 6 August: Most pathogens are… Continue reading 2026-08-07 BC