NY, NJ and FL are probably all in that peak plateau. We'll know when the peak was from hospitalizations and when it gets back low enough for the testing volume to capture the curve.
I hope Europe will peak the wave soon in months.
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Is it all of Canada or just that one Ontario set of data?
I think part of why hospitalizations are up in Ontario is that they have gone to only testing those in hospital, long term care homes and those that work in those places. A lot of people are going to the hospital to get tested and I wouldn't be surprised many are getting admitted.
It's all the graphs on this page: https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data#hospitalizationsByVaccinationStatus
If you scroll down they do break down cases by age and vaccination status. If you go by that those over 80+ have the highest number of cases and they are still rising. Most of them are fully vaccinated. Everyone else is on a downward slope.
Ahh, they fixed it. I didn't even click the age buckets. They still have this note at the top of the page "Due to technical difficulties, the case rate by vaccination status by age group is not available". Last week (2 weeks ago?), this data bay age only went to October. Now it looks like they have data into January.
Curling you say?
Yup. I didn't mean to diminish or suggest it didn't matter. Just to point out that thinking of it that way makes the differences even larger. Plus, if you're in the hospital for something else just "with COVID", even if it's "mild" it's still making it worse for whatever else that is. Even if the last thing piled on top of you is relatively small, it's still there and could be the thing that tips the scales poorly. For all sizes and definitions of "relatively small" or "mild".
Quick note.. I thought the same thing. But I got addicted to it for some odd reason. Liked it so much the local ice rink near me had curling lessons and I signed up. Hundreds did. I couldn’t believe it. Anyway it was fun to learn and play against others. And it’s hard. Very hard. But it was a blast and I’m so looking forward to the Olympics to watch again! I ski a lot so the Winter Olympics always are my favorite but besides the skiing and luge and other things.. curling has snuck into my watching. I tell people to just give it a hour. At that time you will love it.. or not. But 5 minutes won’t give you a good taste.
If I find anything I'll let you know. Double masking for me doesn't feel any better with gaps. I've struck out so far and my friends with tweens are finding the same issue. Considering I buy hats from the kids department more often than not that tells you my size of head.
And that continued decrease in mask-wearing is contributing to the significant community spread (my zip code is now at 12,428 cases per 100,000 people) is why all of my daughter's therapy practices are getting more strict with mask-wearing. Now that she's fully vaccinated, she is returning to in-person speech therapy. Until omicron hit, her therapist would have had a mask on, but she would have been able to not have her mask on (which is obviously seriously helpful for speech therapy) - now, DD has to have her mask on too. Her OT office is more strict as well. I'm not even allowed to stay in the building anymore, masked or not, I have to drop her off and wait in my car. All of these practices have immuno-compromised kids, so I understand their why - but it's frustrating to continue to see less and less care given generally to how less mitigation impacts the most vulnerable in our communities.