While lack of testing under-reports cases, it does show trends. There's also the covid symptom tracker which can be used to infer the true infection rate. You

While lack of testing under-reports cases, it does show trends. There's also the covid symptom tracker which can be used to infer the true infection rate. You can dive into it, but by all metrics cases are going in countries that started their omnicron wave mid to late December If you look to Nova Scotia, you can also see hospitalization peaking and arguably decreasing, aprox 1-2 weeks after reported cases peaked. (Nova Scotia is a good case because it started the Omnicron wave 2-3 weeks before the rest of Canada) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/covid-update-nova-scotia-feb-9-2022-1.6344632 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/covid-update-nova...