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

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...

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Published in:Scientific data Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 173 - 10
Main Authors: Berry, Isha, O’Neill, Meghan, Sturrock, Shelby L., Wright, James E., Acharya, Kamal, Brankston, Gabrielle, Harish, Vinyas, Kornas, Kathy, Maani, Nika, Naganathan, Thivya, Obress, Lindsay, Rossi, Tanya, Simmons, Alison E., Van Camp, Matthew, Xie, Xiao, Tuite, Ashleigh R., Greer, Amy L., Fisman, David N., Soucy, Jean-Paul R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 15.07.2021
Nature Publishing Group
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Canada - epidemiology
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - prevention & control
COVID-19 vaccines
Data Collection
Data Descriptor
Databases, Factual
Decision making
Digital curation
Disease hot spots
Epidemiology
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Immunization
multidisciplinary
Pandemics
Public health
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Vaccination
Vaccination - statistics & numerical data
Canada
ISSN:2052-4463, 2052-4463
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Summary: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 of COVID-19 recoveries, testing, and vaccine doses administered and distributed. Data are recorded systematically at a fine sub-national scale, which can be used to support robust understanding of COVID-19 hotspots. We continue to maintain this dataset, and an accompanying online dashboard, to provide a reliable pan-Canadian COVID-19 resource to researchers, journalists, and the general public. Measurement(s) COVID-19 Cases • COVID-19 Mortalities • COVID-19 vaccination Technology Type(s) digital curation Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo sapiens Sample Characteristic - Location Canada Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14331311
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ISSN:2052-4463
2052-4463
DOI:10.1038/s41597-021-00955-2