Remenber COVID? Yup, still with us.
The latest Health Canada update of the status of respiratory diseases indicates that the COVID positivity rate has decreased a bit, but that some 4,000 people have been hospitalized for COVID since the end of August, of which 285 required intensive care. This is obviously much fewer than at the pandemic's height, but it is far from insignificant.
The stat that really stood out for me, though, was that there have been 750 deaths from COVID since August, compared to 43 deaths from flu, for example. So, to say that COVID has become just like the seasonal flu bug is far from the truth. I'm wearing a mask when we fly south later this week.
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