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Nice New Charts

The new provincial logarithmic charts are nice!

It would be better to include links to provincial corona pages (e.g. the closures) rather than linking to the generic province pages.

Vaccines and treatments for COVID-19: List of all COVID 19 Clinical Trials Authorized by Health Canada

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/covid19-clinical-trials/list-authorized-trials.html

Semi-protected edit request

Chart states that Ontario has been under a stay-at-home order since March 24. No such order has been issued. Fully two weeks later, on April 6, Premier Ford stated that he did not want to make such an order (https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2020/04/06/ford-reluctant-to-issue-mandatory-stay-home-order-but-warns-ontarians-they-could-be-fined.html). Please edit the chart accordingly.

edit: in fact, stay-at-home orders have not been issued in Nova Scotia or Quebec, either. I do not think any stay-at-home orders have been issued. The chart should be correct or these claims should be properly cited.

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Aasim 17:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Response: under the stay-at-home column, it should be changed from 'yes' to 'no' for each jurisdiction. No such order has been made on a province or territory-wide basis. Note that the Chart does not source the claim that stay-at-home orders have been issued (as they haven't). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.19.149 (talk) 22:47, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Add to External links link to tool COVIDmapper developed at University of Alberta. The unique value added are the daily updated projections for the future of this pandemic.

 Done Aasim 21:09, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Daily table by province and territory missing

Could someone fix the page and reinstate the table that appeared first in the statistics section. The table listed the daily count of new cases, hosp, deaths, etc by province and territory. Charts are nice but some of us the hard data. Thank You.

Thanks to all of you working hard on a daily basis keep all of this up to date. 76.71.166.104 (talk) 11:37, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The big table is still on the page, but it's collapsed and moved to the end of the "Statistics" section, just above "References". Jmdyck (talk) 13:49, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
All that is displayed the Statistics section are the:
  • Progression Charts (which are out of date)
  • Cases by Region chart and table
  • Individual regions charts
Immediately following this is the references section. There is no "Show" table button . I tried attaching a screen capture to show you but the system will not let me upload it. Jcharest57 (talk) 19:52, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ya, the table is gone. This is the only reason to visit this page regularly. Jrarrmy (talk) 20:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm looking at the page right now, and between the "By Regions" graphs and the "References" header, there's a Timeline of Cases of Regions [show] line, and if I click on "[show]", the big table appears. If that isn't what you see, I can't explain it. Jmdyck (talk) 03:39, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm also able to view the Timeline of Cases of Regions table; it's initially collapsed for me. IP editor and Jrarrmy, would you have happened to have disabled Javascript on Wikipedia? Otherwise try purging the cache. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 05:23, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Tenryuu Yes, I usually browse with scripts blocked, never caused an issue before that day, and it's working again now. The daily chart is back, above references. The cases per million by province is gone, even with shields down.

Thanks for your help. Jrarrmy (talk) 20:28, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Corona in Canada" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Corona in Canada. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. -- Tavix (talk) 13:33, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics by age table disappeared yesterday

The table of contents still shows a section "6.3 by age" under Statistics, but is now a dead link as the table it pointed to seems to have been removed (probably inadvertently) along with other edits yesterday (April 24). Since I am relatively inexperienced editing and there is also a discussion here about the other tables I probably should leave restoring it to others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by StephenDow (talk • contribs) 16:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I now see what's wrong: the "by age" table has been included within the preceding section's Timeline table, which has a "show/hide" toggle, initally hidden. StephenDow (talk) 22:22, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 26 April 2020

Within the Timeline/January 2020 section, the second paragraph is incorrect and mis-states the facts from the referenced materials. The paragraph should be changed from:

On January 17, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) implemented signage in the Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver airports to raise awareness of the virus, and had added a health screening question to the electronic kiosks for passengers arriving from central China. There are no direct flights from Wuhan to Canada.[24][25]

To:

On January 17, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) indicated plans were in progress “to implement signage” in the Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver airports to raise awareness of the virus, and that there would be an additional health screening question added to the electronic kiosks for passengers arriving from central China. The agency noted the overall risk to Canadians was low and there were no direct flights from Wuhan to Canada. The CBSA said it would not be, at that time, implementing extra screening measures, but would “monitor the situation closely”.[24][25] Hillbillydave1972 (talk) 08:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Aasim 21:20, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

PIIS2589-7500(20)30086-8

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30086-8/fulltext

Switcher

@UmpireRay: The most recent edit (diff) caused "Syntax error" in the "Total deaths by province and territory" graph. That's because you had to update two sets of the same information due to use of {{switcher}}. The complexity of doing that led to deletion of the |y1=0,0,0,... line in the second {{GraphChart}}. Please fix that (I'd rather not do it because I have no idea what the numbers are). However, is switcher really desirable? There must only be a tiny number of logged-in users reading this article who would have the switcher gadget enabled? That's up to people maintaining this article but it seems unwarranted to me. Johnuniq (talk) 03:33, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for alerting me to this. As for the use of the switcher, I believe it's enabled by default, so most users should have it. It's also used in other COVID articles (see the Netherlands for example). UmpireRay (talk) 03:52, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nunavut has a case in Pond Inlet

Just from a few minutes ago, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-first-covid19-case-1.5509014. I have trouble with my mobile editing. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 14:15, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Graphs in "Statistics" section are unclear

It is not clear why there are pairs of the same graphs (New cases per day, new deaths per day). There is nothing indicating the difference. Are the second versions created using some sort of smoothing? If so, why are both included?

Also, there are no labels for the graphs of each province. It isn't reasonable for viewers to understand that they are the same types of data as the national graphs above, now that the above graphs have multiplied. In the early days it was easier to make the connection, but at this point it has grown unwieldy.

Even at high res, the labels on the provincial graphs are unreadable now that the time series has grown so big. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.202.200.214 (talk) 03:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Section: COVID-19 Testing

Since testing is frequently identified as one of the key things countries can do to combat the pandemic, I suggest this article should have a dedicated section on it. I have added one. Comments and suggestions are welcome. J S Lundeen (talk) 22:56, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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