The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

10-day averages for key regions in Ontario, plus the weekly trend as of 2021-09-18 (posting this every Saturday).

Region	Cases today	per 100K	10-day average	per 100K	Weekly trend
Chatham-Kent	16	15.1	16	15.2	-10%
Windsor-Essex	48	12.3	54	14.0	-35%
Brant	17	12.5	13	9.8	+20%
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph	42	15.4	21	7.6	+108%
Hamilton	25	4.3	42	7.3	-42%
Niagara	22	4.9	30	6.6	-28%
Peel	114	8.2	88	6.4	+8%
York	80	7.2	67	6.1	-4%
Middlesex-London	41	10.1	24	6.0	+38%
Ottawa	76	7.6	59	5.9	+1%
Eastern Ontario	19	9.4	12	5.9	+84%
Southwestern Ontario	11	5.5	10	5.2	+48%
Toronto	152	5.2	149	5.1	-3%
Durham	47	7.3	33	5.0	+39%
Simcoe-Muskoka	21	3.9	26	4.8	-32%
Huron Perth	4	4.1	5	4.8	+10%
Halton	19	3.5	24	4.4	-28%
Waterloo	23	3.7	27	4.4	+2%
Lambton	4	3.1	5	4.0	+4%
Kingston Frontenac	4	2.0	5	2.5	-28%
Leeds, Grenville & Lanark	2	1.2	4	2.5	+0%
Grey Bruce	5	3.1	4	2.2	+50%
Northwestern	3	3.4	2	1.9	+80%
Sudbury	15	3.9	7	1.8	+66%					-4%

The vaccine mandate kicks in in four days' time. Amazingly we have been able to contain Delta for now, hopefully the vaccine mandate (and the slowly-increasing vaccination rates) will be able to bend the curve down further in the coming months.

And, while I am no Doug Ford fan, I have to give him some credit for listening to the experts since Delta started spreading. Even setting aside the dumpster fires in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Ontario is still doing substantially better than, say, BC or Quebec, and clearly the best of the big provinces. No hasty moves, no circus tricks, just cautious and (small-c) conservative policies for managing the pandemic.

Oh, yes, I should mention that the Waterloo Region health unit has not been looking nearly as incompetent recently as they were accused of being early in the summer.