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Mar 24, 2020 7 tweets 4 min read Read on X
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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More from @JPSoucy

Feb 19, 2022
I encourage everyone to read this thoughtful 🧵 about the worrying precedent set by the invocation of the Emergencies Act in Canada to freeze people out of the financial system without due process. /1
The order for financial service providers (banks, credit cards, crowdfunding platforms, etc.) to freeze the accounts of anyone associated directly or "indirectly" with the protest gives the government extremely wide latitude to act. /2

As the author points out, the ability to exercise your constitutionally protected rights (freedom of expression, assembly, religion, etc.) is often underpinned by the ability to transact. Exercising your rights costs money! /3

Read 7 tweets
Oct 3, 2021
One thing that has bugged me since the beginning of the pandemic: how did the CDC get sidelined so completely? How did Dr. Fauci, the head of an agency almost no one had ever heard of, become the public face of the COVID response, while CDC Dir. Redfield had almost 0 presence?
Is it as simple as NIAID being in the D.C. Metro area whereas the CDC is situated away from Washington, in Atlanta? (Thanks to Coca-Cola president Robert Woodruff, incidentally)
Maybe @DFisman has some insight on this one.
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Oct 2, 2021
Hey. I’ve been working on #COVID19 #OpenData for a while now, but the time has come to think bigger. Today I’m announcing the launch of a new project: What Happened? COVID-19 in Canada

Let’s build a unified platform for COVID-19 data in Canada. Together.

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This project has three pillars: a definitive timeline, a comprehensive archive and pandemic storytelling.
1. There’s a ton of #COVID19 #OpenData out there and we want to stitch it into one definitive dataset covering cases, vaccination, hospitalizations and every other relevant metric. To succeed, we will need to design a standardized way to assemble and present COVID-19 data.
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Oct 1, 2021
Well done, @UofT:
✅ 99% have first dose 💉
✅ 94% are fully vaccinated 💉💉

How do other universities in Canada measure up? #COVID19 #vaccine @UofT_dlsph Image
...among the 76,000 students, staff and faculty that have declared their status. It's not clear how many HAVEN'T declared their status (and thus what the overall vaccination rate is). Waiting for answers from @UofT on this one.

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Sep 21, 2021
Please stop linking to this garbage report as "CDC confirms #COVID19 #vaccines have killed at least 150,000 Americans."

downloads.regulations.gov/CDC-2021-0089-…
Yes, it's posted on a .gov website. Anyone is allowed to submit comments on articles printed in the Federal Register, which are then posted to regulations.gov alongside the original document.

regulations.gov/document/CDC-2…
This is like calling every article indexed on PubMed an "NIH study" but much, much worse.
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