The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

While we don't have triple digit GTA levels here, we are pretty much at the top of the list for new cases after them...only Hamilton managed to surpass us with 10 more cases today. I imagine by the end of the month we'll be seeing 100+ a day and that will likely just keep growing after all the infections people give each other over Christmas and New Years Eve.

Waterloo Region is averaging about 10.5 cases/100K in the past two weeks and trending down (see my comments above). That is below not only GTA but also Windsor, Hamilton, Guelph and Halton.

Christmas holiday behaviour is the big wildcard, but otherwise the region seems to have recovered somewhat from the spike two weeks ago. New cases have been pretty stable around the 60 mark, and the number of active cases is dropping.