A Time of Fear that found key lessons from that outbreak are being ignored by Canadian jurisdictions.
And B.C. is among the worst offenders, the report says, as the province is failing to provide specific data the SARS Commission an investigation of the 2003 SARS outbreak in Ontario found was crucial to safeguard health workers. The report was commissioned by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions.
“The most problematic jurisdiction may be British Columbia,” Possamai writes. “Its publicly disclosed data has been incomplete, inconsistent and on occasion, seemingly contradictory.”
Von Bergmann is forced to extract data based on the province’s COVID-19 graphs and charts data that is readily available in easily used forms in other provinces. That means he’s spending more and more time coding or poring through everchanging visual graphs and reports to extract relevant information.