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
September 6 to 12
This has been the off-week in the bi-weekly reporting cycle of many of our sources of official pandemic data. What we have seen is a continuation of the ongoing transition from the seasonal COVID lows to the usual inexorable fall rise in new infections, albeit at a lower level than previous years at this time.
Turning to our composite chart, the slightly jagged Canada-wide municipal wastewater COVID PCR testing curve which shows a continuing but comparatively-moderate rise in circulating COVID virus counts. That is consistent with the rise in Ontario PCR test results which have been generally climbing since their June low and, over the three most recent weeks, have risen from less than one percent to 1.6% and then 2.3%. Ontario COVID hospitalizations and ICU bed occupancy rates are as usually that rise but show a moderate upward trend.
Public Health Canada’s next update on currently-circulating COVID variants will be available next week. I’m looking forward to seeing how rapidly the new recombinant RF family has spread.