March 23 #COVID19 #Canada update: 620 cases reported today, for a total of 2,091. 409 of these cases were in #QC. Explore the data using our (@ishaberry2) dashboard below.👇
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The shift in the number of #QC cases occurred as a result of the province changing the way they report cases: they are now counting cases testing positive in hospital labs as confirmed, rather than sending them to the provincial lab for validation.
Larger daily jumps in case counts should not be unexpected in the future as testing scales up across the country and provinces clear their backlogs of tests.
I'd also like to highlight one of the challenges our #OpenData team faced today. @MBGov reported one case new case today, but also reported one presumptive positive case tested negative. That leaves us where we were yesterday, at 20 total cases in the province.
@MBGov has been reporting pretty detailed information on most cases so far, but unfortunately we do not know which of the previously reported presumptive positive cases tested negative. So for now, we avoided entering in today's case, which preserves the cumulative total cases.
We have reached out to @MBGov and will update our data when we receive a response. This isn't a unique event. Yesterday, #QC announced a death previously attributed to #COVID19 was in fact not related to the disease.
These are the details our team led by @ishaberry2 must stay on top of in order to provide as accurate a data source as possible for users of epidemiological data.
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