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
October 18 to 24
This having been the off-week in which those of our agencies which report biweekly don’t provide more current data, there has been little apparent change.
As you can see from our composite chart, Canada-wide municipal wastewater COVID viral counts are continuing their moderate seasonal rise, having climbed to roughly the same levels as last year at this time. That’s not the case with Ontario PCR COVID testing, where the positivity rate remains at roughly 60% of last year’s comparable figure. Ontario COVID hospitalizations and ICU bed occupancy likewise remain a little over half of last year’s.
Public Health Canada reports should again report on currently-circulating COVID variants next week.