Centre For Local Research into Public Space (CELOS)
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Daily summary of the Ontario Public Health report:
News
Sweden and Ontario
ICU covid patients: Last winter it was a neck and neck race...
Ontario has almost 15 million people and Sweden had just over 10 million. Easy to compare. Both places are in the north. Both are sparsely inhabited in their northern regions. Both have urban concentrations in their south. Both have welcomed immigrants and both rely on those immigrants to do a lot of the lower-paid jobs....
...but since April 7 -- as the numbers of seriously ill covid patients were still rising, then dropped in both places, and then began to be more or less level -- Ontario has been consistently higher than Sweden in the numbers of ICU patients per 100,000 population. That's despite Ontario's long lockdown and slow opening, versus much more freedom in Sweden.
Dec.16: that difference may be about to change.
Snapshot, October 7, 2021
Sweden vs. Ontario, to Dec.16, 2021
Letters from Sweden
Costs:
Testing costs
Canada: $74 per test (estimate). source
Media archive: selected media stories 2021
Oct.30 2021: Iowa
Media archive: selected media stories March - May 2020