TORONTO — A think tank that’s been compiling data on COVID-19 in Canadian long-term care homes says it has to stop its work because provinces are no longer making enough information public about the spread of the virus in the sector.
But provinces have been sharing less data on outbreaks and cases since the start of this year and information is being made publicly available with far less frequency than in the past. The situation has reached a point where it’s now too difficult to keep the think tank’s project alive, said Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the institute.
Without fulsome data, however, it’s difficult to understand what’s happening with COVID-19 in long-term care and how to best respond or plan for future outbreaks, Sinha said. Sinha suggested giving the Canadian Institute for Health Information a mandate to collect information on COVID-19 in long-term care – something he said he was surprised to learn wasn’t already in place when representatives from CIHI reached out to him earlier in the pandemic with interest in his team’s data collection work.
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