The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

SATURDAY 2020-12-26

No data from Waterloo Region -- maybe on Sunday?

Ontario reported 2,142 new cases today -- a second day below the seven-day average -- with a seven-day average of 2,257 (-30). 1,913 recoveries and 38 deaths translated to an increase drop of 191 active cases and a current total of 19,879. +1,672 active cases for the week and 234 deaths (33 per day). No test data was released.

No data on testing?

I wonder what effect the holiday will have on testing, I suspect people would delay getting tested during the holiday.  Even more cynically, I suspect people may delay getting tested during the holiday because they were busy infecting their extended family.

None for yesterday or today. Since the province reports cumulative totals, we'll see it sooner or later but it may or may not be broken out by date.

Christmas testing will surely be lighter, as normal weekends are already substantially lighter testing activity than weekdays.

That said, the moment of truth for the Christmas infections will come a week or so from now. But, anecdotally, I only know one person who met the family for Christmas, and that person lives alone (and self-isolated for two weeks in advance). I hope my anecdotal data points at least somewhat mirror the rest of the region ... but I am not really optimistic.