3 years ago

Zoom recording from “Data Science with Open Canada Data” Seminar - http://ivim.ca/data/seminar. Better watched with captions on.
Transcript is available here: ivim.ca/data/seminar/pdf/2022-04-29-excess-deaths.html

In this Seminar:

1:00 Data is non-partisan and it is changing with time.
3:00 Update from PHAC: percentage of fully vaccinated continues to monotonically increase, since their very first report in July till present
6:16 Excess deaths analysis - new plot in the Dashboard
7:48: Why results are so different among provinces
10:38 Not much excess deaths in New Brunswick prior to vaccination, but many after vaccination
11:46 Could it be due to contamination of particular vaccine batch in new brunswick?
(Ref: Moderna recalls thousands of COVID vaccine doses in Europe. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-recalls-thousands-covid-vaccine-doses-2022-04-08/https://twitter.com/Gorodnichy_Dm/status/1512783260367134727)
13:16 Official deaths data are the most trusted sources of data
15:00 Excess deaths in Alberta, BC, nova scotia, Ontario
15:58 what is causing these deaths?
16:27 Omicron the "safest" variant, but also the most infectious
19:00 New Open Canada Data FB group created
20:00 How to use Deaths Tracker App
23:23 Less suicides shown during pandemic
24:50 Absolute and Relative difference between current and historical deaths