According to everything we know about COVID-19, public transit seems like a perfect breeding ground for the disease. Recent international data show a lack of confirmed cases connected to transit use that is striking even when taking ridership declines into account. Conclusive evidence linking COVID-19 transmission to transit use appears to be rare in Canada. Toronto Public Health hasn’t traced any of the city’s more than 13,500 COVID-19 cases to public transit. Accurately determining the rate of transmission on transit would be “enormously difficult” because “people don’t live on public transit, people don’t know each other on public transit,” Furness said.

Source: thestar June 18, 2020 19:32 UTC