06-10-2021, 09:24 PM
(06-10-2021, 07:40 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote:(06-10-2021, 05:09 PM)jeffster Wrote: RoW and Peel are Delta hotspots right now. Unsure why we're not getting actual numbers though.
On the regional website where they report all the covid information they have a section related to variants and mutations. So the region reports the variants including the delta variant of which we have 14 cases of but the provincal government isn't reporting delta cases for whatever reason and Tom is getting his data for variants from the provincal data which is why there is no delta cases on his daily report.
All the quantitative variant reporting is pretty useless. The Alpha/Beta/Gamma processing is slow, and half the results are from who-knows-how-long ago, so about all we can tell is that Alpha is still the most common, and there are a lot of those.
As I recall, testing for Delta requires a full RNA analysis so it is substantially slower yet. Don't know why the province doesn't publish those at all.
Overall, we know Delta is impacting the case rates, but at least from my point of view it's not critical to know the percentage of Delta cases. The total cases (and hospitalization etc) tell the tale anyway, either we are getting this thing under control or not, regardless of the current set of variants.