I see a some cases of Delta on the 2nd graph of the Public Health Ontario page, but much less than 99% (e.g., 7 Delta to 205 No Mutation for week of October 6). Likewise, the Toronto dashboard has mostly delta in the VOC graph since July (it’s a bit hard to see without excluding the Alpha counts from earlier which are much higher and make the y-axis too big).
Lineage B.1.617.2 (Delta) includes cases identified by genomic analysis. Mutations common to B.1.617.2 are not included in the current VOC mutation test.
Which I interpret to mean they’re just not testing most cases for “Delta-ness”. Since non-Delta variants are just about zero, 99% Delta seems like a good guess.
This is the system that is planning to finally [replace their fax machines by the end of 2021](https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ontario-fax-machines-1.5955753) (which means they’ll probably get that done around 2025), so I’d say expecting up-to-date VOC tests is being too optimistic.
I see a some cases of Delta on the 2nd graph of the Public Health Ontario page, but much less than 99% (e.g., 7 Delta to 205 No Mutation for week of October 6). Likewise, the Toronto dashboard has mostly delta in the VOC graph since July (it’s a bit hard to see without excluding the Alpha counts from earlier which are much higher and make the y-axis too big).
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/data-files/covid-19-data-tool-technical-notes.pdf?la=en says:
Which I interpret to mean they’re just not testing most cases for “Delta-ness”. Since non-Delta variants are just about zero, 99% Delta seems like a good guess.
Is this incompetence? Book-cookery? Something else?
This is the system that is planning to finally [replace their fax machines by the end of 2021](https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ontario-fax-machines-1.5955753) (which means they’ll probably get that done around 2025), so I’d say expecting up-to-date VOC tests is being too optimistic.