Since today's emergency press conference on #COVID19 data in B.C. is telephone only, I'm going to use this thread to livetweet the questions and answers in a straightforward fashion, instead of the usual charts/context/jokes approach

Dr. Réka Gustafson begins the press conference, says she's going to "raise some awareness" on the public health surveillance done by B.C.

Explains how data is used for making decisions.

"It's an established process, and with every week and day we try to improve it."

Gustafson says the province "makes as much of the data as possible … available publicly."

Says "there has been a particular interest in the data".

Dr. Henry says the data "is for decision making" and there is weekly technical meetings.

Dr. Henry explains/defends the current approach, says they've provided more data as things have gone on, says data eventually "goes public, in a way that can help inform people."

Questions now beginning.