COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian public health officials have been gathering information on those who have become infected — their age, gender and where they live.But there are growing calls to collect another kind of data — people’s race.In the United States, health data has shown that Black Americans have been hit especially hard by COVID-19.
Canada’s lack of race-based COVID-19 data hurting Black Canadians — experts At one point in April, Black Americans accounted for about 42 per cent of all COVID-19 related deaths in the country.According to the CDC that figure has shrunk to 22 per cent as of July 15, a number which is still outsized considering that Black Americans make up only 13 per cent of the country.“The transmissions are higher,.