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Recovery can take a long time, getting retested to be declared recovered can take much longer.

Until today only 8 people 'recovered' in Ontario out of 1355 cases. Today the province cleared their backlog of some 7200 tests, which resulted into the biggest gain in positive cases (+351 today to 1706) but also cleared 423 people, to 431 recovered. Perhaps now they have testing up to speed and hopefully no more bottlenecks, we'll get some more reliable numbers here.

The gain in recoveries likely has more to do with a change in the way to recoveries are counted:

Previously, patients’ cases were not considered to be resolved until they had tested negative for the virus two times 24 hours apart. Now, a case is considered to be resolved if they are reported as recovered in the integrated Public Health Information System and their case is not currently listed as hospitalized in the system, or they are 14 days past symptom onset or 14 days past the episode date if the case is closed.

Statistics for Ontario:

19 and under 42 2.5%
20-64 1,319 77.3%
65 and over 343 20.1%
Total Tested 48,461
Currently Under Investigation 5,651

Yaffe added that in Ontario 100 COVID-19 patients are in an intensive care unit, and 61 of those patients are on ventilators.

Ontario has a population of 14.6 million btw, very low amount of testing still.



Ontario's stance on face masks:

Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. David Williams addressed the issue at Monday’s news conference saying that he would prefer people who are not healthcare providers or part of an essential service to “kept two metres” a part instead.

“I’ve seen some people with masks who tend to be able to think that they can ignore that,” Williams said, adding that the face coverings don’t offer the benefit of social distancing.

“I would still prefer the social distancing and physical distancing as compared to a number of people wearing masks and standing in clumps and large groups together. I can’t support that at all.”

Dr. Yaffe agreed and said that masks can also offer a “false sense of security” as users tend to touch their faces more often to adjust the fit.

Yaffe added that if you are symptomatic, and checking into an assessment centre or hospital, you should wear a mask to prevent transmission of your symptoms to others.