CBC story on the change to weekly data at the link below. The Premier attempts to make the case that what’s in the weekly report is actually better than what had been released daily. Opposition health critic refers to the new lack of data as “part of a ‘strategy to avoid accountability’ by the Provincial gov. Clicking on the tweet itself to read the comments speaks to further media efforts to try to get at more transparency:
The contradiction that a person really needs to take note of and ask questions about surrounds levels of Covid activity. On the provincial data page I linked to a couple posts above, a particular point in bold heading is made referring to “Covid-19: Decreasing activity” in Manitoba. Meanwhile in Ontario, separated from us by an imaginary line, story below today cites their wastewater data pointing towards levels of the same virus approaching the Omicron peak for that province:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-ontario-april-6-2022-1.6409884
Also on the topic of Ontario as a bellweather, their “hospitalized including ICU” number has nearly doubled from March 27th’s 553 to today’s 1074. Also showing what might be an upward trend in ICU bed usage forming over the past five days. Not claiming “sky is falling,” but at the point where we shouldn’t be pretending that the sky isnt there or being aware of and taking note of any meaningful changes in it:
https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/hospitalizations