The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

"we are averaging more than a dozen deaths a day in Ontario and rising."  What does this number even mean ?
Statistically Ontario had 109 019 deaths for 2019.  That is 306 deaths per day in Ontario.  the number has been increasing each year, I am sure attributed to aging population.
2016- 97 000
2017- 101 659
2018- 106 762
2019- 109 019

I will be interested to see the year over year number of deaths from last year to this year.  I suspect the number wont be as big of an increase as you would think...

That's the "excess deaths" number you are looking for. In the US, it was about 300,000 in mid-October, when the number of COVID-associated deaths to date was about 200,000 at the time. I do expect our gap in Ontario to be smaller, but I expect it'll be substantially more than the 3,300 COVID-identified deaths to date.