01-07-2021, 04:02 PM
THURSDAY 2021-01-07
Waterloo Region reported 173 (!) new cases today (21.0% of the active cases); 766 new cases for the week (+109), averaging 20.0% of active cases. 891 active cases, +362 in the last seven days.
No need to go looking for dumpster fires beyond our own region.
Ontario reported 3,519 new cases today with a seven-day average of3,141 (+27). 2,776 recoveries and 89 (!) deaths translated to an increase of 654 active cases and a new total of 26,718. +5,101 active cases for the week and 326 deaths (47 per day). 65,772 tests (finally back in the normal range) for a positivity rate of 5.35%. The positivity rate is averaging 6.28% for the past seven days, compared to 5.38% for the preceding seven.
If I were to look for a silver lining in today's provincial numbers, it is that there were "only" 250 more cases than yesterday, in spite of 15,000 more tests, implying an incremental positivity of only 1.7% for those additional tests. Hmmm. Better than nothing, I suppose.
363 patients in ICU (+2), and a total of 1472 hospital beds in use (+237 for the week).
Today's bonus chart shows the Waterloo new cases, plus those cases as % of the provincial new cases. Our population is about 4% of the Ontario total.
Waterloo Region reported 173 (!) new cases today (21.0% of the active cases); 766 new cases for the week (+109), averaging 20.0% of active cases. 891 active cases, +362 in the last seven days.
No need to go looking for dumpster fires beyond our own region.
Ontario reported 3,519 new cases today with a seven-day average of3,141 (+27). 2,776 recoveries and 89 (!) deaths translated to an increase of 654 active cases and a new total of 26,718. +5,101 active cases for the week and 326 deaths (47 per day). 65,772 tests (finally back in the normal range) for a positivity rate of 5.35%. The positivity rate is averaging 6.28% for the past seven days, compared to 5.38% for the preceding seven.
If I were to look for a silver lining in today's provincial numbers, it is that there were "only" 250 more cases than yesterday, in spite of 15,000 more tests, implying an incremental positivity of only 1.7% for those additional tests. Hmmm. Better than nothing, I suppose.
363 patients in ICU (+2), and a total of 1472 hospital beds in use (+237 for the week).
- 208 cases in Windsor-Essex: 53.5 per 100K
- 457 cases in York: 41.2 per 100K
- 568 cases in Peel: 41.1 per 100K
- 90 cases in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 33.1 per 100K
- 891 cases in Toronto: 30.4 per 100K
- 115 cases in Middlesex-London: 28.4 per 100K
- 175 cases in Waterloo: 28.3 per 100K (based on provincial reporting)
- 174 cases in Durham: 26.9 per 100K
- 146 cases in Hamilton: 25.2 per 100K
- 112 cases in Niagara: 25.0 per 100K
- 27 cases in Brant: 19.9 per 100K
- 19 cases in Chatham-Kent: 17.9 per 100K
- 36 cases in Eastern Ontario: 17.8 per 100K
- 95 cases in Halton: 17.3 per 100K
- 164 cases in Ottawa: 16.5 per 100K
- 78 cases in Simcoe-Muskoka: 14.4 per 100K
- 12 cases in Huron Perth: 12.2 per 100K
- 22 cases in Southwestern Ontario: 11.0 per 100K
- 10 cases in Leeds, Grenville & Lanark: 5.9 per 100K
- 7 cases in Thunder Bay: 4.7 per 100K
Today's bonus chart shows the Waterloo new cases, plus those cases as % of the provincial new cases. Our population is about 4% of the Ontario total.