Why has Canada’s data collection during the pandemic been so bad?

It’s time the federal government used its authority to create critical data infrastructure.

To be effective, an extraordinary and co-ordinated national effort is required, with much more extensive testing and real-time standardized reporting of results, from local, to provincial, to federal agencies. These data on the tests will be much more powerful for managing the pandemic if they also include pre-existing diseases and risk factors such as smoking, writes Michael Wolfson. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY MICHAEL WOLFSON

April 27, 2020

Canadians are finally beginning to see projections of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and needs for intensive-care units from various provinces and the federal government. We are also starting to see simulations that look beyond the next month or two when, hopefully, epidemic curves are clearly flattening. ...

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