{"id":31262,"date":"2024-01-02T07:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=31262"},"modified":"2024-01-02T07:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:19:40","slug":"how-deadly-has-covid-been-in-2023-heres-what-the-ontario-numbers-are-telling-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=31262","title":{"rendered":"How deadly has COVID been in 2023? Here\u2019s what the Ontario numbers are telling us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/how-deadly-has-covid-been-in-2023-here-s-what-the-ontario-numbers-are-telling\/article_32b52a12-9b8c-11ee-a23d-a30f2261773d.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/657ce27703413.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A comparison between recent COVID-19 deaths and annual fatalities from motor vehicle collisions underscores the virus, while much less fatal than previous pandemic years, is still exacting a toll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/how-deadly-has-covid-been-in-2023-here-s-what-the-ontario-numbers-are-telling\/article_32b52a12-9b8c-11ee-a23d-a30f2261773d.html\">How deadly has COVID been in 2023? Here\u2019s what the Ontario numbers are telling us<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthontario.ca\/en\/Data-and-Analysis\/Infectious-Disease\/COVID-19-Data-Surveillance\/Wastewater\" target=\"_blank\">provincewide wastewater signal<\/a>, updated Thursday and the most accurate way to determine weekly COVID cases, continues to increase beyond the one-year high reached last month, though levels in some regions, including northern Ontario, appear to have peaked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>go go waster water testing!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>META: notice how the use of tags allows me to tie posts (and other media?) together; i like the idea of wastewater monmitoring, seems like a cost effective way to keep an eye out for future problems )=(if indeed possible)?   I can make a list of all these items with a simple search query for &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?tag=waste-water-monitoring\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1317\" target=\"_blank\">waste water monitoring<\/a>&#8220;.  But sadly I can&#8217;t seem to &#8220;tag&#8221; this image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/waste-water-monitoring-example-ontario-2023-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"896\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/waste-water-monitoring-example-ontario-2023-12-1024x896.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/waste-water-monitoring-example-ontario-2023-12-1024x896.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/waste-water-monitoring-example-ontario-2023-12-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/waste-water-monitoring-example-ontario-2023-12-768x672.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/waste-water-monitoring-example-ontario-2023-12-750x656.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/waste-water-monitoring-example-ontario-2023-12-675x591.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/waste-water-monitoring-example-ontario-2023-12.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comparison between recent COVID-19 deaths and annual fatalities from motor vehicle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[169,147,140,1317],"class_list":["post-31262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-ontario","tag-paul","tag-waste-water-monitoring","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31266,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31262\/revisions\/31266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}