The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

Something is not right. G&M's data is very different:

Does Ontario have 72 cases in ICU, or 434? That's a massive difference. And if Waterloo-Wellington has 21 hospitalized cases, Quebec's ratio would indicate maybe seven of them in ICU, not 31.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/a...yrocketed/

There were 72 confirmed cases on March 27, along with 324 suspected cases. Part of the CBC article highlights the fact that briefings from Ontario's Associate Chief Medical Officer used data that were a few days out of date. That G&M article was published on Monday the 30th, so I surmise that it used info from the Sunday briefing, which showed 72 (again, confirmed) cases in ICU.

Thanks, re-reading CBC, the key word is "suspected" which is surely a lower confidence level than "presumptive", with no clear diagnosis, let alone a confirming test result. So there may be a lot of COVID-19 in the ICUs, or maybe not. Today's regional report indicates 22 COVID-19 cases (confirmed and presumptive) in the ICU. And maybe it's another 10 or so pneumonia cases etc where it could be COVID-19, or maybe not.