Welcome to
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
May 31 to June 6
This is our off-week in terms of providing a reasonably comprehensive statistical summary of the current state of the pandemic in that, of our main sources, only Ontario and the cross-Canada wastewater report have published. A more up-to-date picture will have to wait until next week.
The Canada-wide municipal wastewater COVID testing curve shows the seasonal decline in viral counts which began in late February slowing but continuing. Those counts are now so low that further declines will be marginal at most. That is consistent with Ontario’s PCR COVID testing results which also show similarly-falling positivity rates at the lowest-ever values. Likewise Ontario COVID hospitalization and ICU bed occupancy rates.
The more independent health statisticians at COVID-19 Resources Canada have not updated their estimate one in every 367 people being infected and therefore infectious, the lowest-ever value for that indicator.
We’ll also have to wait another week for Public Health Canada’s biweekly report on currently-circulating COVID variants to get a better sense of the surprising shift in dominant viral families which was reported last week.