Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Of Canada’s major cities, Ottawa had the highest percentage of seroprevalence at 1.29 per cent, followed by Toronto with 1.07 per cent and Vancouver with 0.60 per cent.

again: these numbers continue to be very weird, and broadly inconsistent with themselves.

ottawa had one of the lowest case counts in the country at the time.

i don't know what the right analysis is, but i'm leaning towards biases in the sampling. if this method of testing blood donors is being chosen because it's supposed to be a random sample, that doesn't seem to really be the case.

https://www.cp24.com/news/more-than-1-per-cent-of-torontonians-have-covid-19-antibodies-canadian-blood-services-study-1.5096825