05-11-2020, 07:38 PM
(05-11-2020, 06:38 PM)plam Wrote: Thinking again about Quebec's test positivity rate, if it is the same proportion as the previous numbers I would think that the new cases are 12% of the number of tests but 30% of those cases might be by epidemiological link (household contacts + symptoms), so 9%. Still higher than it should be.
I also wonder about % of active cases and whether it's useful to look at particular regions and their rates.
The difference in the number of positive tests as compared to Ontario really is huge. There were three days in early April, a few weeks after Ontario started detailed reporting, when there were over 12% positives. Even in the first two weeks from when Ontario started reporting the number of daily tests, the positives averaged only 10.2%. And to me that means that today there is still significantly more COVID-19 in the wild in La Belle Provence.
I would really like to know the number of active cases for Quebec but I have not seen that published anywhere. Please let us know if you see that somewhere!