{"id":19521,"date":"2022-10-21T10:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=19521"},"modified":"2022-10-21T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:07:50","slug":"release-new-report-on-the-spread-of-covid-ltc-outbreaks-hospitalizations-deaths-raises-red-flags-despite-the-ford-governments-suppression-of-covid-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/release-new-report-on-the-spread-of-covid-ltc-outbreaks-hospitalizations-deaths-raises-red-flags-despite-the-ford-governments-suppression-of-covid-data\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE:<\/FONT> New report on the spread of COVID, LTC outbreaks, hospitalizations & deaths raises red flags despite the Ford government\u2019s suppression of COVID Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

(October 21, 2022)<\/p>\n

Toronto \u2013 The Ford government has ceased regular reporting on the spread of COVID-19. Public Health no longer publishes daily and weekly epidemiologic reports and it has become steadily more difficult to get accurate numbers. Not only are the government and Public Health not reporting much of the data previously available, they have also cut testing and abandoned trace and isolation measures. Regardless, there is some data available and infectious disease specialists have taken up the challenge of identifying transmission of the virus using wastewater, serology and other evidence. The Ontario Health Coalition released a report today in plain language to give the public a clearer idea of the risks. The data the Coalition found on long-term care and hospital outbreaks, hospitalizations, community spread and deaths should raise red flags. The abandonment of all public protections against the transmission of the virus is resulting in loss of health and death for a significant number of Ontarians.<\/p>\n

On December 31, 2021, the Ontario government heavily restricted<\/span><\/a> access to public PCR testing. This meant that a very small percent of the population could get access to PCR testing resulting in a significant underreporting of positive cases.\u00a0 The end of public testing has ushered in a new era of data suppression in which regular Ontarians had no way of knowing how prevalent and dangerous the spread of COVID-19 was in our communities.<\/p>\n

From the week of Oct 2- Oct 8, there were only 66,177 tests done resulting in 8,929 confirmed cases<\/span><\/a><\/span>. For context, there were 435,213 tests performed from the week of Dec 26, 2021-Jan 1 2022, the last week prior to the strict rationing of public testing.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Tara Moriarty of Moriarty Labs, an infectious diseases research laboratory studying blood borne pathogens, and a group of doctors and researchers created COVID-19 Resources Canada<\/span><\/a> in order to provide more information to Canadians. They have used the best available data to calculate the spread of COVID-19 including wastewater surveillance, seroprevalence and in some provinces, self-reporting to give an accurate depiction of COVID-19 in our communities<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Their key findings include:<\/p>\n

There were 68,910 new COVID-19 cases in Ontario on October 14, the most recent day reported. That is 68,910 new cases in one day<\/em>. That is 44 percent of the new daily infections in Canada. (Note: Ontario has 39 percent of Canada\u2019s population but 44 percent of daily new infections on the most recent date reported.)<\/p>\n

COVID-19 remains a serious and potentially fatal pathogen:<\/p>\n