Canadian Covid-19 pandemic public health mitigation measures at the province level

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted governments across the world to enforce a range of public health interventions. We introduce the Covid-19 Policy Response Canadian tracker (CPRCT) database that tracks and records implemented public health measures in every province and territory in Canada. The implementations are recorded on a four-level ordinal scale (0–3) for three domains, (Schools, Work, and Other), capturing differences in degree of response. The data-set allows the exploration of the effects of public health mitigation on the spread of Covid-19, as well as provides a near-real-time record in an accessible format that is useful for a diverse range of modeling and research questions.

“All in this together?” tracking the polarization of discourse on COVID-19 in Manitoba.

“…Manitoba, which is geographically central and of middling population size, scored near the Canadian average on COVID-19 statistics like death rate and vaccination rate (Health Canada, 2022), suggesting that its experience may be typical among provinces. Like the majority of provinces, Manitoba had a right-leaning party in power throughout the study period, and there was nothing singular about its response to the pandemic (Akanteva et al, 2023).…”