A think tank that's been tracking data on COVID-19 in Canadian long-term care homes says it has to stop its work.
But provinces have been sharing less data on outbreaks and cases since the start of this year and information is being made publicly available with far less frequency than in the past. The situation has reached a point where it’s now too difficult to keep the think tank’s project alive, said Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the institute.
The website for the Long-Term Care COVID-19 Tracker Project will remain available online with data gathered as of July 1, but work to update it is being paused.New outbreaks have been rapidly increasing in Ontario as the province contends with a seventh wave of infections – more than doubling week-over-week at the beginning of July.
The National Institute on Ageing wants to see provinces and territories come to a common agreement on a consistent way to collect and publicly report data on long-term care and COVID-19, he said. Sinha suggested giving the Canadian Institute for Health Information a mandate to collect information on COVID-19 in long-term care – something he said he was surprised to learn wasn’t already in place when representatives from CIHI reached out to him earlier in the pandemic with interest in his team’s data collection work.Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.
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