Why we need race-based data on COVID-19

With racial demographics on the impact of COVID-19, we will have the policy ability to do something about it. Without the data, we will not have the policy ability.

The village of Puvirnituq in Nunavik, Que., pictured Feb. 7, 2018, is a fly-in community located on the east side of James Bay with about 1,800 people and it has most of the cases in the region of northern Quebec. But there is no reliable data nationally to show if First Nations, Inuit, and Métis are impacted more than others, writes Rose LeMay. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

April 20, 2020

OTTAWA—With more than 30,000 Canadians tested or presumed to have COVID-19, we are facing a health crisis like no other. This crisis will also shine a light on a number of weaknesses and inequities in our society, some of which are delineated along racial lines. Twenty-nine states in the U.S. rel...

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