The COVID-19 pandemic

[panamaniac]

Waterloo Region reported 13 new cases: four out of the last five days have seen ten-plus new cases now. The number of LTC facilities with active cases is now down to four. Today's case increase is 1.1% of the total cases to date and 11.3% (!) of the current active caseload. 115 cases now active in the region, up five, but down 62 in the past seven days. New cases averaging 6.3% of actives over the past seven days.

About 45% of cases to date have been in LTC, and 10% in two food processing facility outbreaks.

323 people tested in the region, with a 4.0% positivity rate.

Ontario reported 387 new cases, plus 68 that had been diagnosed earlier but missed in reporting. 364 recoveries and 35 deaths translate to an decrease of 12 active cases for the day (now 3,848) and a weekly total of -153. 23,105 tests for the day (yet another record!) for a 1.7% positivity rate. The new cases are 1.5% of the total but 11.8% of the number of active cases. New cases averaging 9.9% of actives over the past seven days.

The hospital population dropped below 700 now, to 673 (-76) and the ICU population inched down as well, to 117 (-1).

It really doesn't look like we're going to get the active case count down to the 3,000 range unless we do something different. Like mandate use of masks in stores and on transit, for example.

Knowing what to do is the key though, I wish we had better information on how and what tracking was going on, are people being infected in stores, at work, inside, outside, on transit, in parks, in homes, I'd be curious to know these kinds of things personally, but I'd really like to know that those making the decisions knew these things.

Do they?  It has not been my impression that they do know, in the majority of cases.