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Limitations of Canadian COVID-19 data reporting to the general public
Canadian coronavirus (COVID-19) case statistics reported by governmental bodies and news outlets are central to inform the public and to guide health policy. We searched Canadian governmental and news outlets websites to determine how COVID-19 case statistics were reported to the general public, whe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8802988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35102238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-022-00337-x |
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author | Long, Stephanie Loutfi, David Kaufman, Jay S. Schuster, Tibor |
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description | Canadian coronavirus (COVID-19) case statistics reported by governmental bodies and news outlets are central to inform the public and to guide health policy. We searched Canadian governmental and news outlets websites to determine how COVID-19 case statistics were reported to the general public, whether they were reported with appropriate denominators, data sources, and accounted for age, sex, and race or ethnicity. Canadian COVID-19 data reporting practices were found to have limited utility due to varying case definitions, heterogeneous and dynamic testing criteria, lack of appropriate standardization accounting for dynamics, sizes, and characteristics of the populations being tested. Population-wide representative COVID-19 testing should be implemented to enable accurate estimation of the scale and dynamics of the epidemiological situation. Comprehensive COVID-19 data on underrepresented and marginalized populations should be collected and reported in an effort to develop equitable health policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-88029882022-02-01 Limitations of Canadian COVID-19 data reporting to the general public Long, Stephanie Loutfi, David Kaufman, Jay S. Schuster, Tibor J Public Health Policy Original Article Canadian coronavirus (COVID-19) case statistics reported by governmental bodies and news outlets are central to inform the public and to guide health policy. We searched Canadian governmental and news outlets websites to determine how COVID-19 case statistics were reported to the general public, whether they were reported with appropriate denominators, data sources, and accounted for age, sex, and race or ethnicity. Canadian COVID-19 data reporting practices were found to have limited utility due to varying case definitions, heterogeneous and dynamic testing criteria, lack of appropriate standardization accounting for dynamics, sizes, and characteristics of the populations being tested. Population-wide representative COVID-19 testing should be implemented to enable accurate estimation of the scale and dynamics of the epidemiological situation. Comprehensive COVID-19 data on underrepresented and marginalized populations should be collected and reported in an effort to develop equitable health policies. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2022-01-31 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8802988/ /pubmed/35102238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-022-00337-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Long, Stephanie Loutfi, David Kaufman, Jay S. Schuster, Tibor Limitations of Canadian COVID-19 data reporting to the general public |
title | Limitations of Canadian COVID-19 data reporting to the general public |
title_full | Limitations of Canadian COVID-19 data reporting to the general public |
title_fullStr | Limitations of Canadian COVID-19 data reporting to the general public |
title_full_unstemmed | Limitations of Canadian COVID-19 data reporting to the general public |
title_short | Limitations of Canadian COVID-19 data reporting to the general public |
title_sort | limitations of canadian covid-19 data reporting to the general public |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8802988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35102238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-022-00337-x |
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