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
April 19 to 25
The most recent official statistics on COVID-19 infections suggest that the recent seasonal decline in new cases may already be running out of steam.
As you can see from this week’s composite chart, Canada-wide municipal wastewater COVID viral counts continued their decline, but much more modestly than in recent weeks. Ontario PCR test positivity rates are roughly the same as where they were last year at this time. Ontario COVID hospitalization and ICU bed occupancy rates are still dropping but currently mirror last year’s numbers.
The independent statisticians at COVID-19 Resources Canada now appear to be providing updates on a monthly basis, which means that we will have to wait until next week for an update to their early-April estimate of one in every 69 Ontarians being currently infected and therefore infectious. As I indicated last week, I expect their next estimate to show a significant reduction in that risk.
Public Health Canada’s weekly reports on the relative “market shares” of currently-circulating COVID variants on a bi-weekly basis. Again, that means no change in the corresponding bar chart.