A real-time epidemiological database for the COVID-19 pandemic across Canada. The dataset includes individual line-lists of cases and mortality with location, age, sex, travel history, and exposure details, as well as national and sub-national timeseries for cases, mortality, recoveries, testing, and vaccine doses. It was authored by David N. Fisman.
Use Cases
- Modeling sub-national COVID-19 transmission dynamics based on location and exposure data
- Analyzing vaccination rollout disparities across provinces and territories based on vaccine dose administration timeseries
- Studying demographic risk factors for mortality based on individual-level age and sex information
- Tracking pandemic progression over time based on national and sub-national timeseries of cases, recoveries, and testing
Strengths
- Includes data for all provinces and territories of Canada, providing national coverage
- Contains both individual-level case data and aggregated timeseries data
- Includes multiple epidemiological metrics: cases, mortality, recoveries, testing, and vaccine doses
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- David N. Fisman
- Geography
- Canada (all provinces and territories)