Welcome to
Ron’s COVID-19 Page
What’s new on this site
The COVID municipal wastewater PCR testing results for each province, which are updated weekly on our Canada page, have all been revised to accommodate a restructuring of the Canada Public Health Infobase from which we draw the data.
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
September 21 to 27
This is an “off” week due to some of our major data sources now being on bi-weekly schedules and therefore not having provided updates to last week’s statistics.
Fortunately, Public Health Ontario continues to publish weekly. The seasonal rise August and September surge in new COVID infections is quite apparent in the PCR test positivity rate graph included in this week’s composite chart. However, it hasn’t risen since last week’s results. One data point never constitutes evidence of a trend change as it may just be a statistical or data collection anomaly. We’ll need to wait for another week of data before drawing any tentative conclusions. COVID hospitalization rates continue to rise, but that’s the expected result of the previous week’s rise in test positivity. ICU bed occupancy, which tends to follow another week later, is still climbing relatively slowly.
Since COVID-19 Resources Canada hasn’t updated their risk estimates, I’ve substituted the Public Health Canada report on COVID municipal wastewater viral counts. That has been showing a similar but not as steep rising trend as the Ontario POC test positivity.
The latest data on currently circulating COVID variants will hopefully be available next week at this time.