The COVID-19 pandemic

[MidTowner]

Our population is three-and-a-half times that of Alberta, but we're not even completing double the tests. 70,000 tested there, compared with less than 100,000 in Ontario. Not too impressive.

This doesn't matter when looking at trends, as long as the testing methodology remains constant, we can still see whether cases are going up, down, or flat.

You're right about this: we can see that the rate of growth is slowing, at least. And the hospitalization and death numbers don't lie, anyway.

But if we can't conduct more than a few thousand tests a day, I don't understand how we can ever hope to reopen society. My understanding from everything I read is that, once things are reopened (and they have to be), only aggressive contact tracing gives us a hope of managing the resulting surge in infections. We can't even test to find out who is infected, forget about tracing the contacts of those who are.