Covid-19: Interesting articles

I’ve been sharing articles on the topic of Covid-19/coronavirus on Facebook, and someone asked me if I could collect them into one easy-to-review place. I’m glad that so many are finding it helpful; I am only Facebook friends with people I know “in real life”, so this post will reach additional people, perhaps. I’ve included some fun things, as well as articles.

Please note that this isn’t a professionally curated collection of everything worthwhile – just some things that caught my eye, either from sources I found or from sources friends/colleagues passed on to me.

The structure is the first section are articles, the second section is a mix of graphics, interesting Facebook posts, and humour

I’ve flipped the articles so that the newest are on top. The Advice and Meme section, and the Humour section both have oldest at the top, newest at the bottom. For the articles, I’ve flagged (bold, underline, capitalized dates) the articles that I think are the most important.

COVID-19 Cases in Canada

MONDAY, JULY 27, EVENING
(Note: Saturday data; blog is updated weekly, data is captured daily)

Important note: I will be taking a break from logging and analyzing the data in August.

Table of contents:

• Basic information
• Daily Cases by Province
• Cumulative Case Comparisons
• Regional Perspective
• Digging Deeper: Ontario and Quebec
• Cases by Population, and Testing
• Seniors in Ontario (occasional)
• Travel Sources
• Data sources

Cautions:

• If my numbers differ from ANY of the official numbers on the Canada.ca website or on any of the provincial/territorial sites – the public health officials have details that I don’t. (Unfortunately, PHAC has roughly 60% of the data the provinces do, but what they have has a level of details that aren’t published publicly).
• While I have a public health background (I worked for PHAC for 11 years and have a Masters degree in public health) and have taken multiple epidemiology and statistics courses, I’m neither an infectious disease expert nor a biostatistician/epidemiologist. I’m also doing it in my spare time, after a full day of work and early in the morning on Sundays. I’ve caught occasional errors, and it’s quite likely that additional methodological or analytical mistakes remain. (Normally when one does this sort of work, others review it before publication, whereas I’m doing this solo, for fun).
• Take my analysis as a way to add context for the general public, but it’s not definitive. Listen to the federal, provincial, and territorial public health authorities. They have the information!