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Ron’s COVID-19 Page
Who We Are
This site shares the results of an ongoing personal project to better understand why the pandemic developed in such a damaging way in Canada, what other jurisdictions have done to better protect their citizens from those impacts and what we can collectively do to reduce the possible carnage from futures wave caused by this rapidly-evolving virus. It neither represents nor receives funding from any other person or organization. The sole purpose is to provide the latest and most meaningful data and insights related to the pandemic and its impact on our society in a readily accessible format. You will find many meaningful charts and analyses which provide context for the statistics summarized in the above table by clicking on the Global, Canada, Ontario and Kingston menus. For more details, see the About page.
Weekly Pandemic Update
October 4 to 10
This past week’s official data on new COVID infections confirms a continuing moderate worsening as expected following the fall return to school and the end of the seasonal spring/summer low.
As you can see from our composite chart, Canada-wide municipal wastewater COVID viral counts continued their rise from the unprecedented low of recent months, for the first time reaching the levels of last year at this time.
At 3.4%, the positivity rate from Ontario PCR COVID testing remained under last year’s, but is rising fairly rapidly. Ontario COVID hospitalizations and ICU bed occupancy, typically a more lagging indicator of pandemic severity, rose fairly sharply but remains roughly half of last year at this time.
Public Health Canada reports only bi-weekly on currently-circulating COVID variants. This having been the off week, that portion of the chart is perforce unchanged.