COVID-19 dashboard replacement still shrouded in secrecy – CBC
New weekly COVID Watch web page, expected to launch Tuesday, will contain ‘pertinent’ data, Shephard says
Apr 04, 2022
New Brunswick is expected to launch its new COVID-19 web page Tuesday, but exactly what information it will include remains unclear.
The weekly page, part of Public Health’s communicable diseases website, replaces the COVID-19 dashboard, which has been reduced to weekly updates in recent weeks.
The Department of Health did not respond yet again Monday to a request for comment about whether all of the same data will still be available.
But Health Minister Dorothy Shephard told reporters last week the new page, called COVID Watch, will provide “some pertinent information.”
“Number of hospitalizations are going to stay. Number of deaths. Number of cases. Number of vaccines. I know there’s a couple of others,” she said, as plans for the page were still being finalized.
The current dashboard contains 59 points of information, Shephard said. “So we’re going to condense it to what we think is the most relevant.”
