Ontario mulls collection of race-based COVID-19 data; some argue it’s essential

A spokeswoman for Health Minister Christine Elliott said the province was working with public health and privacy experts to collect such data but noted it would require changing regulations.“We recognize that the collection of race-based data is important in order to guide our decision-making on how to protect vulnerable groups who may be at a higher risk for COVID-19,” Hayley Chazan said.

OmiSoore Dryden, an associate professor and chairwoman of Black Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University, said the information is needed to properly identify health disparities. Analysis of such data, she said, should be done by anti-racism experts – those health researchers, epidemiologies and statisticians who have also been trained in critical race theory and decolonization.

“Public health units have different capacities and population densities that impact their abilities to collect, analyze and report on race-based data,” said the association’s executive director, Loretta Ryan, on Tuesday. “Their challenges in doing so should not be seen as a lack of interest with regards to this matter.”

There is a difference in numbers depending on race. It is now known that vitamin D helps tremendously combat COVID And depending on where you live and what colour skin you have it changes your chances at surviving COVID

With race profiling with the virus can be good only for thing that it would shows what race of people are affected most other than that it should not be done EVER because the information could/would be used against that race there goes racism again THAT can't be ALLOWED

fordnation Mulling it because you already know the results...another attempt of trying to convince us that we are all equal.

Hey ON want handouts from Trudeau to further his race baiting agenda you better get on board... How about race based data on daily gang violence in ON, when will that start?

What’s next, collection of race based data on the Thug Street Ganbangers who are slaughtering people on the streets of Toronto with their illegal guns? Don’t waste your money. We all know they are white kids. Justin says so.

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