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Canada is flying blind with Omicron as COVID-19 testing drops off a cliff
Hospitalizations, positive-test rates and wastewater can help track spread
Adam Miller · CBC News · Posted: Jan 05, 2022 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
Canada has lost sight of the true size of its pandemic, with the number of people infected with COVID-19 now a mystery, as the highly infectious Omicron variant overwhelms testing capacity across the country.
Omicron is causing a never-before-seen surge in COVID-19 that has prompted provinces to reinstate curfews and gathering restrictions, shutter bars and restaurants and move schooling back online in a desperate attempt to mitigate the impact on hospitals.
Yet those case levels are about to drop off a cliff — not because of the flood of new public health restrictions across the country that haven't yet taken effect, but because health officials have simply stopped testing the majority of Canadians for COVID-19...
Canada is flying blind with Omicron as COVID-19 testing drops off a cliff
Hospitalizations, positive-test rates and wastewater can help track spread
Adam Miller · CBC News · Posted: Jan 05, 2022 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
Canada has lost sight of the true size of its pandemic, with the number of people infected with COVID-19 now a mystery, as the highly infectious Omicron variant overwhelms testing capacity across the country.
Omicron is causing a never-before-seen surge in COVID-19 that has prompted provinces to reinstate curfews and gathering restrictions, shutter bars and restaurants and move schooling back online in a desperate attempt to mitigate the impact on hospitals.
Yet those case levels are about to drop off a cliff — not because of the flood of new public health restrictions across the country that haven't yet taken effect, but because health officials have simply stopped testing the majority of Canadians for COVID-19...
