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1/n I've been gathering and reporting COVID data for several hours every day now for 430ish consecutive days — an arbitrary number, but excuse enough for a thread.
Here's to the people who've thrown their lives at understanding the pandemic without the backing I'm lucky to have. https://twitter.com/EdTubb/status/1391162047208083457
Here's to the people who've thrown their lives at understanding the pandemic without the backing I'm lucky to have. https://twitter.com/EdTubb/status/1391162047208083457
2/n Here's to @nolore.
When @KenyonWallace @_jennamoon and I first put together our database of Ontario LTC outbreaks in early April 2020, Nora was simultaneously doing the same without the backing of a national newspaper. https://twitter.com/EdTubb/status/1253856974091018241?s=20
When @KenyonWallace @_jennamoon and I first put together our database of Ontario LTC outbreaks in early April 2020, Nora was simultaneously doing the same without the backing of a national newspaper. https://twitter.com/EdTubb/status/1253856974091018241?s=20
3/n Since then, Nora's work has become one of the best references for nursing home outbreaks in the nation — much more comprehensive than what we first published last April.
Her Tableau with @socialvizcanada is truly *fantastic*, painstaking work. https://public.tableau.com/profile/andrew.lam3968#!/vizhome/CanadaLTCCOVID-19Deaths/LTC_Deaths_Canada
Her Tableau with @socialvizcanada is truly *fantastic*, painstaking work. https://public.tableau.com/profile/andrew.lam3968#!/vizhome/CanadaLTCCOVID-19Deaths/LTC_Deaths_Canada
4/n It was late April 2020 when Ontario first moved to release comprehensive open data on LTC outbreaks.
That doesn't happen without the pressure brought on them through some seriously superhuman effort.
Here's to @nolore. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/04/26/new-ontario-covid-19-data-shows-appalling-death-numbers-in-long-term-care.html
That doesn't happen without the pressure brought on them through some seriously superhuman effort.
Here's to @nolore. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/04/26/new-ontario-covid-19-data-shows-appalling-death-numbers-in-long-term-care.html
5/n Here's to @jkwan_md.
Honestly, I should probably feel like Jennifer is a competitor — she's been doing the same as me with Ontario's daily COVID-19 data, and more, every damn day I have, often sooner, often better. https://twitter.com/jkwan_md/status/1391030447216463872?s=20
Honestly, I should probably feel like Jennifer is a competitor — she's been doing the same as me with Ontario's daily COVID-19 data, and more, every damn day I have, often sooner, often better. https://twitter.com/jkwan_md/status/1391030447216463872?s=20
6/n Her stamina is insane, and her consistency!
Lord knows I've had mornings where I'm late, or tired, or burnt out, or don't want to do *that* viz. that takes forever.
Dr. Kwan never does.
The fact she's also a practising family doctor is *mind-blowing*.
Lord knows I've had mornings where I'm late, or tired, or burnt out, or don't want to do *that* viz. that takes forever.
Dr. Kwan never does.
The fact she's also a practising family doctor is *mind-blowing*.
7/n Even her dog is (arguably) cuter than mine.
Here's to @jkwan_md https://twitter.com/jkwan_md/status/1388266597522026508?s=20
Here's to @jkwan_md https://twitter.com/jkwan_md/status/1388266597522026508?s=20
8/n Here's to @ASPphysician
There are few people whose opinions I've trusted more through all this than Andrew's.
He's no-nonsense and he's *so incredibly* thorough and clear, which means when he talks, you want to listen — here, for example: https://twitter.com/ASPphysician/status/1391076247883632645?s=20
There are few people whose opinions I've trusted more through all this than Andrew's.
He's no-nonsense and he's *so incredibly* thorough and clear, which means when he talks, you want to listen — here, for example: https://twitter.com/ASPphysician/status/1391076247883632645?s=20
9/n Plus, his newsletter is so damn, infuriatingly good — and I mean that as a writer, mostly.
You should sign up: https://covidemails.com/
Here's to @ASPphysician
You should sign up: https://covidemails.com/
Here's to @ASPphysician
10/n Here's to @vaxhunterscan.
If I'm honest, the very fact of @vaxhunterscan makes me red with rage.
It shouldn't take volunteers to make sense of a system like this. That it did is bad. It just is.
But those volunteers — oh man, they are superhuman. https://twitter.com/VaxHuntersCan/status/1382789167751528456?s=20
If I'm honest, the very fact of @vaxhunterscan makes me red with rage.
It shouldn't take volunteers to make sense of a system like this. That it did is bad. It just is.
But those volunteers — oh man, they are superhuman. https://twitter.com/VaxHuntersCan/status/1382789167751528456?s=20
11/n There may be no single group of non-medical people who've done more to help us get doses into arms than @andryou, @joshkalpin, @sabanero_pepper and @jclodman.
12/n Yes, I think it's shocking and appalling that you had a better chance with our vaccine rollout if you or someone you love is good with Twitter — but that's not on the people behind this team.
Lord, we needed them.
Here's to @VaxHuntersCan. https://twitter.com/EdTubb/status/1387401742845939720?s=20
Lord, we needed them.
Here's to @VaxHuntersCan. https://twitter.com/EdTubb/status/1387401742845939720?s=20
13/n Here's to @ishaberry2 @JPSoucy and http://opencovid.ca .
It's hard to quite convey how *bad* our access to COVID-19 data was in March and April 2020.
We used to see days go by between local reports of deaths and the change in official data! https://twitter.com/JPSoucy/status/1319047155915673602?s=20
It's hard to quite convey how *bad* our access to COVID-19 data was in March and April 2020.
We used to see days go by between local reports of deaths and the change in official data! https://twitter.com/JPSoucy/status/1319047155915673602?s=20
14/n That's the reason I started on this all the way back in March 2020 — nothing added up unless you did it by hand.
Then these two (and their team) came along and started doing it better than me.
And it's open, too!
What. A. Resource.
https://art-bd.shinyapps.io/covid19canada/
Then these two (and their team) came along and started doing it better than me.
And it's open, too!
What. A. Resource.
https://art-bd.shinyapps.io/covid19canada/
15/n I've said this before: Ontario has become really quite good at Open Data. Truly.
But doesn't happen without the pressure from hand-built resources like this.
(And they're students! Holy crap, you have a couple of good ones, @UofT_dlsph.)
Here's to @ishaberry2 and @JPSoucy
But doesn't happen without the pressure from hand-built resources like this.
(And they're students! Holy crap, you have a couple of good ones, @UofT_dlsph.)
Here's to @ishaberry2 and @JPSoucy
16/n And a shout out to @Sue_Innovates and @IacovosMichael, who worked their butts off to chart LTC outbreaks back when we had no public data in March-April 2020, then reached out to me to share their work.
I really appreciated that. Thank you.
I really appreciated that. Thank you.
17/n I know I've missed a lot of people and although I didn't intend this to be a thread to thank healthcare professionals that, of course, feels like an impossible omission.
Sorry on both fronts.
Sorry on both fronts.
