04-18-2020, 12:47 PM
(04-18-2020, 12:34 PM)robdrimmie Wrote:(04-18-2020, 11:58 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Yes. Not clear yet why the big jump. But LTC case count is now up to 195 so I suspect they have been doing more testing at LTC facilities. Based on the region's data, the infections are not new, the symptoms already set in some time ago, so it's people who had symptoms but did not get tested earlier. My guess (and it's just a guess) is that they had not been doing enough testing in LTC facilities so they are now uncovering these cases. Revera Forest Heights is up to 118 cases ...
There's an article in yesterday's Record about expanded testing in Waterloo Region. It notes a "previous expansion into long-term care facilities" which may be having an impact. It reads to me like the article supports your thinking here perhaps? Or is the impact of those changes something unrelated?
Yes, that sounds even more likely, then.
Really, we should have been testing at the LTC facilities far earlier already.
