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 17 to 23
The most recent official statistics on COVID-19 infections suggest that we have either reached or are approaching the 2026 seasonal lows in new COVID infections.
Nationally, as you can see from the Canada-wide municipal wastewater COVID testing curve in our current composite chart, viral counts have levelled out at their lowest rate yet. That’s consistent with Ontario’s PCR COVID testing results which have likewise stabilized at a record low, as have Ontario COVID hospitalizations and ICU bed occupancy.
That’s about all that is currently reportable since this is the off week in Public Health Canada’s biweekly reporting on currently-circulating COVID variants. Their most recent report had shown the new PQ family of Omicron variants had surpassed the previously-dominant XFG family in terms of share of new COVID infections. That is unlikely to have changed. We are also awaiting the next monthly report by the more independent statisticians at COVID-19 Resources Canada.