Hotspots as reported by Vancouver Coastal Health on May 6. Frontliner percentages based off census data on health, trades, services, manufacturing and resource workers. Visualization by Christopher Cheung. Data from 2016 Canadian census. None of this data surprises advocates, who have called for the collection of race-based COVID-19 data since the early months of the pandemic. “Race and class, particularly at their intersection, have been documented to be a key factor in shaping differentiated rates of infection and also risk for COVID-19,” says John Paul Catungal, an assistant professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.