Coronavirus updates du jour
Here’s the Montreal public health page: we have 1612 confirmed cases in town, with a clear bump in CDN-NDG and Côte St-Luc. For once, Montreal East is a healthy place to be, although if you can afford Senneville you’re even more fortunate. Steve Faguy tweeted a graph showing the per capita numbers, which shows Hampstead and Outremont also up there. Despite claims I’ve seen about Park Ex, ViSaMiPex borough is not doing badly.
mare 17:50 on 2020-03-30 Permalink
Steve Faguy’s tweet has been deleted because it showed cases per million, and suddenly neighbourhoods had 1000s of cases. New graphic is here
https://postmediamontrealgazette2.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/svvu2-covid-19-cases-per-1-000-people.png?quality=100&strip=all&w=288
Kate 18:16 on 2020-03-30 Permalink
Thanks, mare. I’ve replaced the link I had with your new one. (I also stripped out the code that was making it tiny.)
Anon1984 19:33 on 2020-03-30 Permalink
I wish they would separate NDG from Côte des Neiges for purposes of counting COVID infections..my feeling is that it’s much more concentrated in certain areas of NDG and would mean #s of infection per thousand much higher and could hopefully help with containment strategies..I live and work in Monkland Village a population of very affluent,well-traveled people (also lots of Doctors)..first sign we might have been in potential future hot spot was case at NDG Library..I really wish Sue Montgomery was more pro active
JP 20:03 on 2020-03-30 Permalink
If that were true…it might also help with reducing the xenophobic comments being thrown around. NDG doesn’t quite have the stigma that CDN does. Just read a LaPresse article on FB where the headline was about lots of cases in CDN. The comments section was full of ignorant and xenophobic comments.
nau 07:40 on 2020-03-31 Permalink
Yeah, would be nice to see the île des Soeurs and “mainland” Verdun cases separately for the same reason.
walkerp 08:12 on 2020-03-31 Permalink
Why are Cotes-des-Neiges and NDG the same borough in the first place? They are barely contiguous and each is almost as big as the biggest boroughs in the city.
Kate 09:53 on 2020-03-31 Permalink
Bad decisions were made after the merger-demerger debacle, walkerp. Areas were smushed together for political expedience. NDG and CDN have different needs and problems and are, as you point out, each big enough to deserve their own administrative structure. Whether the city had been told to limit the number of boroughs, or whether Quebec was cannily creating a large borough it hoped would chronically fight with city hall, I don’t know.
On a smaller scale, I live in an equally misconceived borough. Villeray, Park Ex and St-Michel are all distinctive areas, with different histories, demographics and issues. But here we are with them all smushed together into one administrative unit.
Kevin 09:57 on 2020-03-31 Permalink
@walkerp
Most analysts I’ve spoken to say it was done for the same reason the PQ rammed through the municipal mergers.
Kate 11:27 on 2020-03-31 Permalink
Kevin, how would you characterize that reason?
Kevin 22:47 on 2020-03-31 Permalink
To reduce political power