Atlantic Canada is quiet (except for 5 cases in PEI among foreign essential workers).
The foreign essential workers are said to have limited contact with others. Their industry is not named (except that it is not healthcare) but given clues is likely agriculture.
#PEI has thus far avoided detectable community transmission and hospitalization for #COVID19.
#COVID19 death trends are very encouraging. #Quebec has an uptick due to 12 reported deaths today, but at least 10 of these deaths occurred in the spring in long-term care and were not previously reported.
I encourage everyone to read this thoughtful 𧡠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
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)
Hey. Iβve been working on #COVID19#OpenData for a while now, but the time has come to think bigger. Today Iβm announcing the launch of a new project: What Happened? COVID-19 in Canada
Letβs build a unified platform for COVID-19 data in Canada. Together.
This project has three pillars: a definitive timeline, a comprehensive archive and pandemic storytelling.
1. Thereβs 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.
...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.
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.