Webinar - Simona Bignami - "Characteristics of COVID-19 cases, fatalities and recoveries across Canadian provinces"

"Characteristics of COVID-19 cases, fatalities and recoveries across Canadian provinces"

A webinar by Simona Bignami, Department of Demography, Université de Montréal

June 2nd, 2020 at 1pm

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/94146187955
Meeting ID: 941 4618 7955

Summary: Provincial governments are responsible for COVID-19 epidemic surveillance. They maintain and disseminate the counts of cases, deaths, recoveries and hospitalizations related to the disease, which are used to trace the evolution of the pandemic nationwide. Information on the characteristics of patients infected with COVID-19 is also gathered but varies across provinces due to the lack of national guidelines for data collection. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has the mandate to harmonize and disseminate this information. Because of delays in provincial reporting, however, PHAC’s epidemiological updates on COVID-19 have never covered more than half of all COVID-19 positive cases. In this paper, we exploit all available data sources at the provincial and national level, and we provide the first comprehensive assessment of the characteristics of COVID-19 cases, fatalities and recoveries at the sub-national level in Canada.