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
June 14 to 20
This update, scheduled for June 20, was postponed until June 24 because the Ontario Public Heath website, the official source for much our relevant statistical data, was inaccessible for more than a week. As it turns out, the data showed relatively little change from that conveyed in our last update beyond confirming that we’ve definitely passed this year’s seasonal low point in terms of new COVID infections.
The Canada-wide municipal wastewater COVID testing curve shows a slight rise in viral counts, but still lower than at any previous time in this pandemic. Ontario’s PCR COVID testing likewise reports a positivity rate which is just a bit higher than that of the previous two weeks but still less than one percent. Ontario COVID hospitalization rates are also slightly up but remain lower than at any previous time in the pandemic years. Ontario COVID ICU occupancy remains equal to the previous lowest ever.
The most recent report from the more independent health statisticians at COVID-19 Resources Canada is likewise the most benign to date. Their latest estimate is one in only one in every 401 Ontarians being infected and therefore infectious, down from their previous one in 367.
Public Health Canada’s biweekly report on currently-circulating COVID variants should be published in time for our next report.