2024-09-26 BC

Statistics Provincial weekly data releases have resumed effective today. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the statistics are different and not as transparent: the raw numbers are no longer published, just graphs (usually per million people). (This provincial report says the BC population is ~5.6M, by the way.) They have also removed… Continue reading 2024-09-26 BC

2024-09-07 BC

Cases are rising in the short term but kind of flat over a longer period. Positivity is creeping upwards, and the number in hospital is rising slowly. Wastewater is going up slowly in Fraser Health, flattish everywhere else. Anecdotally, lots of people “have a cold” right now. (It’s not “a cold”, it’s COVID-19, as I… Continue reading 2024-09-07 BC

2024-08-03 BC

It looks like levels are flat or maybe going down a little bit, which I find surprising because the USA is going bonkers with COVID-19 right now. Hospitals This article (2024-08-02) reports that BC hospitals’ Emergency Departments — including some in Metro Van — have continued to have trouble staying open due to physician shortages.… Continue reading 2024-08-03 BC

2024-07-07 BC

Cases are going up, hospitalizations are up, positivity is up, wastewater is… being strange. COVID-19 Statistics Edit: when I published this, I erroneously gave statistics for the previous month. I updated the numbers on 1 August when I discovered it. As of um some date? probably 4 July, the BC CDC situation report says that in the… Continue reading 2024-07-07 BC

2024-06-07 BC

COVID-19 wastewater and hospitalizations (the most reliable indicators!) are indisputably going up. COVID-19 Statistics As of 6 June, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 1 June there were: +310 reported cases, +93 hospital admissions, +11 ICU admissions, and +16 thirty-day all-cause deaths*. In the week ending 25 May, they now report… Continue reading 2024-06-07 BC

2024-05-04 BC

Reminder: the province is dropping to monthly reports, so I won’t do a weekly BC report unless there’s some major BC-specific news in either COVID-19 or H5N1. Maybe wastewater is going up, or maybe that’s just noise. Hospitalizations continue to go down, dropping below 100 for the first time since last summer but not as… Continue reading 2024-05-04 BC

2024-04-26 BC

The good news: there were only 105 people in hospital on 13 April, which isn’t as low as the summer 2023 low or the low between Alpha and Delta, but it is lower that the low point between Delta and Omicron. Other indicators look flat or down slightly. The bad news: this article reports that… Continue reading 2024-04-26 BC

2024-04-19 BC

Levels are falling down pretty quickly! Yay for weather nice enough to open windows! Vaccines I have a friend who lives in BC but outside the core metro areas — not rural, but not The Big City. Because of some unusual medical conditions, Friend has really bad reactions to the mRNA vaccines. Friend thus tried… Continue reading 2024-04-19 BC

2024-04-12 BC

Well, after some nice drops in COVID-19 levels recently, it looks like we’ve gone back up — which is probably noise. But it looks stagnant at best. 🙁 Mitigation Measures This BC Ministry of Health press release says that masks are no longer required in health care settings. A lot of places weren’t masking or… Continue reading 2024-04-12 BC

2024-04-05 BC

While hospitalizations are stagnant, reported cases and wastewater are both clearly going down, yay! Statistics As of 4 April, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 30 March there were: +290 reported cases, +76 hospital admissions, +14 ICU admissions, and +16 thirty-day all-cause deaths*. In the week ending 23 March, they now… Continue reading 2024-04-05 BC