The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

That's right. There are only two positive tests in the latest batch. I expect some of the 13 presumed positives to be confirmed, but whether it's 1 of 13 or 12 of 13 is anyone's guess.

We can maybe compare this (five total presumed+confirmed cases per day) to the future reports, but, as Dan says, it's not comparable to the previous reports -- or to the Ontario reports, which include only confirmed cases.

A "presumed" case means that they have tested positive but have not yet had the results of the second, confirming test, no?

see, this is the kind of confusion this is causing. It is different from the previous policy on reporting cases, yet we have a newspaper reporting ‘confirmed cases skyrocketing’, which is entirely wrong and likely to be panic inducing. 

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