Since today& #39;s emergency press conference on #COVID19 data in B.C. is telephone only, I& #39;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& #39;s going to "raise some awareness" on the public health surveillance done by B.C.

Explains how data is used for making decisions.

"It& #39;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& #39;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.