I'm not sure that it's really a 2 week thing. It was going badly before Christmas, compared to earlier, and the break of Christmas/St Stephens made a gap in th

I'm not sure that it's really a 2 week thing. It was going badly before Christmas, compared to earlier, and the break of Christmas/St Stephens made a gap in the testing, and then it slammed upwards over the next week, overwhelming the IT and health professionals dealing with turning positive swab numbers into confirmed cases. By NYE, there were 9k tests in limbo that weren't in the stats. At the point where the daily positives get over 2k, that's with a different test population. They're no longer testing contacts of people with COVID, they're testing people with symptoms. The positive rate went from 8% -> 40% in that time. Anecdotally, I had no 1st order contacts with Covid (i.e., I know them well, rather than my sister's friend sort of thing), and over Christmas that went to more like 5 in three separate clusters.