Grand Prix: It’s a tossup
It’s currently considered a tossup whether the Grand Prix will be held here on June 14.
There’s evidence now of community transmission of COVID-19 in Montreal. This is specifically what we’re all trying to limit by staying home.
Regular reader Matthew Hollett is building a website called COVID-19 in Canada with clear graphics and numbers of the progression of the contagion here.
The city is putting funds into Centraide and sending workers to support Moisson Montréal in the absence of volunteers. Plateau borough has also put funds into community groups to help folks who need it.
The STM will no longer accept cash even in its ticket machines.
Some thoughts from Toula Drimonis on how art and creativity will support us through this time.
Alex L 17:35 on 2020-03-24 Permalink
Kudos to Matthew Hollett, interesting graphics. It would be interesting to compare how many people have been tested in every province, as it has a direct impact on the number of cases. I don’t know about the other provinces, but in Quebec these numbers (negative testings and under investigation) are posted daily on Twitter.
Kate 18:10 on 2020-03-24 Permalink
As of Tuesday, these are the numbers on the Santé Québec feed:
➡️1013 cas confirmés
➡️4 décès
➡️1 personne guérie
➡️2548 personnes sous investigation
➡️12 202 analyses négatives
Alex L 18:49 on 2020-03-24 Permalink
Radio-Canada also has a nice page where the data can be accessed:
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/2020/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemie-cas-carte-maladie-symptomes-propagation/?fbclid=IwAR1ukdXhls4r2zbkcawkeXxUqmnt6uiGlpyFiG-EyCOtp6osokm2Esl9aMs
walkerp 19:20 on 2020-03-24 Permalink
Why does Quebec have so many more cases than the other provinces? Is it more testing? Is it because of the one-week-earlier spring break? Because we have so many snowbirds here?
walkerp 19:21 on 2020-03-24 Permalink
Sorry, also forgot to say that is a lovely website, Matthew. Really nice and clean visualization. Thank you!
jeather 21:07 on 2020-03-24 Permalink
Is there easy to read info about how the provinces are measuring cases? There is detail that Quebec’s jump is because cases no longer need validation — but do other provinces require validation? Are we testing more or do we just have a lot more cases than BC and ON?
JaneyB 23:46 on 2020-03-24 Permalink
Very nice website, Matthew. Soothing except for the content. @Alex – Testing numbers can be found here: https://virihealth.com/ Not sure how meaningful those testing numbers are; the high positives for QC make me suspect our test criteria is different esp given the low death rate. Maybe Raymond Lutz has some insight on this?
Mr.Chinaski 08:52 on 2020-03-25 Permalink
walkerp, don’t forget that we have a large percentage of french (I mean from France) and italian people in Quebec. With the winter break week, a lot more people came back from these two countries compared to say, Manitoba.
Marco 10:19 on 2020-03-25 Permalink
Great looking graphic Matthew Hollett. It’s at the top of my daily visits now.
Raymond Lutz 10:58 on 2020-03-25 Permalink
@JaneyB: (cue the StarTrek soundtrack) “I’m an engineer, not a doctor!” 😎
Most real world measurement outcomes (polls, meteorological surveys, etc… ) are sensitive to sampling bias. Who get to be tested, is there a one to one correspondence between ‘a test’ and ‘a case’ (multiple samples are taken for one person) , etc… all this may differ from one region to another. For more info see https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing#covid-19-test-coverage-estimates-as-of-20-march
Matthew H 11:09 on 2020-03-25 Permalink
Thanks, all. I’ve been working on the site a lot so I’d glad people are using it.
Kevin 14:41 on 2020-03-25 Permalink
@walkerp
The isolation and school closure order came 4 days after spring break ended here.
That was 1 day before spring break started in Ontario.
EmilyG 16:25 on 2020-03-25 Permalink
You can also donate to Centraide.