Plague takes no weekends
I realize everyone in health care is run off their feet, but Santé Québec has not updated its COVID-19 totals from Friday, when it was 139. Bureaucracy will have its weekends, but this is a situation that transcends the standard working week – if only because so many of us are not working.
Matt 11:19 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
Don’t they usually update it daily at ~1pm when Legault has his press conference? I’ve got to think they’ll do the same today.
Kate 11:21 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
Perhaps it will be. Thanks.
Matt 11:22 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
Hope so! Also in case it’s helpful, the Sante QC twitter account is usually the first place I’ve seen numbers posted: https://twitter.com/sante_qc
Ephraim 11:58 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
The numbers that I saw yesterday in Canada, for the most part were under the 33%, which is good. The US is about 45% per day. By Wednesday, unless testing kits are flying out really quickly, their numbers will LOOK like they are slowing down… if only for lack of kits.
Tee Owe 12:33 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
Covid-19+ numbers are not really useful unless the entire population are tested. Otherwise it’s just a sampling of those deemed worthy of testing. Who deems and on what basis is not the same in every province or country. If the subset being tested is regularly re-tested then I guess the numbers could be compared to each other but I’m not confident of such stringency, The numbers that really count are how many need medical care, how many are in ICU and on respirators (unless everybody gets tested) – oh, and how many died. Sorry, but that’s how it is.
Kevin 12:46 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
The province shifted from twice daily updates to once a day at 1pm midweek. Wednesday?
The number of negative tests is also useful.
Alison Cummins 14:47 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
181.
Kate 16:13 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
Thanks. I’d listened to the Legault-Arruda Hour and put it up in the sidebar.
Five deaths here so far – four of them in the same old folks’ place.
steph 17:38 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
I’m watching https://virihealth.com/
Kate 17:50 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
Good source, steph. Thank you.
Raymond Lutz 21:02 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
It would have been be great if every country followed the best student in the class for their reports… check https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=&bid=0030
Raymond Lutz 22:31 on 2020-03-21 Permalink
@Tee Owe, from our demographic profile and data at statista (“How COVID-19 Affects Different U.S. Age Groups”) I calculated that 3.5% of declared canadian cases will need an ICU bed.
NB: for those interested, I’ll post daily a graph of total reported covid-19 cases for some chosen countries (including Canada) on https://twitter.com/lutzray (bridged from my mastodon timeline). The data scrapped from worldometers.info lags somehow but stays current day to day.
Geek note: on a semi-log scale, no need to normalize case numbers using each country population to plot cases per million inhabitants… since 1- what matters most is the slope and 2- all plots start at 100th case.
James 08:32 on 2020-03-22 Permalink
Another very good comparison web site is this one:
https://datastudio.google.com/embed/reporting/f56febd8-5c42-4191-bcea-87a3396f4508/page/GQFJB
Raymond Lutz 11:28 on 2020-03-22 Permalink
Any data geek knows a source of daily data about covid-19 cases for ALL Canadian provinces? It would be interesting to compare their respective rate of evolution (particularly ONT vs QC). I’m tempted to scrape and parse the SVG from the CBC.
Raymond Lutz 11:33 on 2020-03-22 Permalink
Yes! Tip of the hat for the CBC for stating their sources! https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_19-covid-Confirmed.csv