“We are working closely with public health staff to ensure necessary measures are in place to protect all students,” the letter states. A case of COVID-19 was reported at the school in late March – the first reported case at the school this year. Public Health or school staff have been and will be contacting parents or guardians of students and any staff, visitors or volunteers who may have been in close contact with the cases to provide direction. “If you do not hear from them, your child has not been exposed because of the measures that are in place,” the school division said.
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Mortality data suggest that far more Saskatchewan people may have died with COVID-19 during the first nine months of the pandemic than officially reported.
Tara Moriarty, an associate professor and infectious disease specialist at the University of Toronto, tallied up Statistics Canada death data for every province between March and mid-November of 2020. She found that there were 368 more deaths in Saskatchewan during that period than patterns for previous years would suggest.
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Even after controlling for a high number of overdose deaths last year, she found 293 “excess deaths” in Saskatchewan. Yet the province reported just 29 deaths among people who tested positive for COVID-19 over that period. That suggests Saskatchewan had missed a large number of COVID-19 deaths perhaps underestimating its tally as much as
TORONTO The COVID-19 death toll during the first nine months of the pandemic may be higher than the provincesâ official numbers, according to an analysis of new national data by a Toronto researcher. Tara Moriarty, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathobiology at the University of Toronto, examined national mortality data compiled from Statistics Canada from March to November 2020. She found that the rate of âexcess deathsâ â which occurs when there are more deaths during a period of time than what would be expected for that period â was much higher than the COVID-19 death tolls reported by the provinces.
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