In reply to Rick H.

The numbers may appear to be getting worse, but as of today the wait time is 73 days and when this article was originally published 26 days ago the wait was 61 days, so you could look at this as a net reduction of 14 days. If the situation was getting worse (or even staying the same) every day then we would expect the wait now to be 87+ days.
This doesn’t offer much help to those already in the queue but I would say after this backlog hump has been flattened, then going forwards things are looking quite healthy.