Ontario professor predicts a sixth wave of COVID-19 despite the fact less than 1% of the population has the virus..Tuesday’s case report included 790 hospitalizations of COVID-19. Ontario officials are concerned as the number increased from 655 on Monday and 553 on Sunday..With a population of more than 14 million, those in the hospital account for .005% of the population..Reports showed 153 are unvaccinated and 470 are fully vaccinated in the hospital, the rest unknown..Of those hospitalized, 47% went to hospital because they were sick with COVID-19 while 53% happened to test positive after being admitted for unrelated reasons..Ontario’s seven-day average cases were 15,719 reported Tuesday, which is .12% of the population, according to the Government of Canada’s health info base.. Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-9.44.53-AMCOVID-19 cases over time, courtesy of Government of Canada .Dr. Isaac Bogoch from the University Health Network said “wastewater signals” show it is “pretty clear that there’s a growing burden of COVID in many communities across the province,” on Global News..Bogoch said it is hard to know the seven-day average but regardless “it’s pretty clear that there’s more COVID now than there was a week ago or two weeks ago.”.Ministry of Health announced testing positivity rate was 14.4% within the last 24 hours, as they processed 12,302 tests..In Alberta, Tuesday saw 501 new cases and 956 people hospitalized, according to the Alberta government statistics.. Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-9.49.35-AMCases over time in Alberta, courtesy of the Alberta government statistics. .In Alberta hospitals 325 individuals (34%) have three doses, 290 (30%) have two doses, 41 (4%) have one dose, and 300 (31%) are unvaccinated..Ewa Sudyk is a reporter with the Western Standard.,.esudyk@westernstandardonline.com
