The pandemic isn’t over, but now we’re navigating it in the dark
The National Institute on Ageing, based at Toronto Metropolitan University, started reporting case counts, outbreaks and deaths in more than 6,000 long-term care homes across Canada as of April, 2020.is now in limbo, because too many provinces are sharing less data, and reporting it less frequently, Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the institute, told the CBC.
Such is the power of data, especially data that are shared publicly. And now the NIA website is on pause, because the data tap has been turned off. And yet that is the path governments have chosen this summer, even as much of the country is living through yet another wave of the pandemic, with yet another COVID-19 variant.
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