A sub-national real-time epidemiological and vaccination database for the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for real-time, open-access epidemiological information to inform public health decision-making and outbreak control efforts. In Canada, authority for healthcare delivery primarily lies at the provincial and territorial level; however, at the outset of the pandemic no definitive pan-Canadian COVID-19 datasets were available. The COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group was created to fill this crucial data gap. As a team of volunteer contributors, we collect daily COVID-19 data from a variety of governmental and non-governmental sources and curate a line-list of cases and mortality for all provinces and territories of Canada, including information on location, age, sex, travel history, and exposure, where available. We also curate time series o

SUBMITTER: Berry I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8282612 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature