Apr 26: Needed good news, got a great one!

Zee
3 min readApr 26, 2020

I’ve had super low-energy, uber-lazy three days. After a never-ending The Great Canadian Baking Show marathon, I really needed good news to snap me out of the funk.

Instead of just good news, we all good great news today! I might even be able to find the energy to shower, which is good news for everyone in my household.

Keep in mind that Sundays are typically slow because many deaths are tallied later during the week (typically Tuesday and Wednesday numbers are higher). However, we did really well even by Sunday standards.

Can you see the dip in every country?

We have to zoom into the above chart.

Still hard to see, let’s just look at Canada and Germany

Do you see the change in curve for Canada on the last day?

3-day rolling average of %age increase in total deaths

This chart shows the dip clearly. Keep in mind that we will rise a little once the weekend numbers are tallied properly, but the dip is still good. We’re following Germany really well.

These numbers show better how well we did today.

Out of 95 total deaths across Canada, 24 (+2.9%) were in Ontario and 65 (+5%) were in Quebec. Both Ontario and Quebec are getting help from the Canadian Armed Forces to manage the crises in LTC Homes.

Here are the daily deaths in both provinces.

Not the best day Quebec has had, but still better than the last week

Mostly because Quebec had a bad week, Canada is doing slightly worse than my model predicted. However, we are only 73 deaths away from the predicted number (< 3% off).

Hopefully, Quebec will continue to improve, it has been struggling a lot. Hopefully the drop today is a start of a new trend, rather than just an issue with the weekend numbers coming in late. Hopefully.

However, today we celebrate a good result day. Congratulations everyone, it had been a while since Canada had fewer than 100 deaths in one day.

Let’s celebrate.

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Zee

A rare combination of a tech *and* political leader. Holds an elected office in Milton, Ontario and runs CampaignRaven.com. This blog focuses on tech.