COVID-19 case counts are lower than what many experts had expected by now, and while they point to a number of factors for the relative relief, they say now is not the time to ease up on those measures.For much of the summer, the province’s top doctor warned of a September surge, followed by a bleak fall and winter.
That has not materialized – yet – as the daily case counts remain under 1,000 and the graph of Ontario’s seven-day average roughly shows a plateau since the beginning of September.That’s well under the worst-case scenario in Ontario’s most recent modelling, which showed about 4,000 daily cases by now.