Provincial health ministries limit timely access to information on vaccine program effectiveness, hampering researchers’ ability to inform and improve Canada’s response to the pandemic.
Provincial health ministries are legally empowered to release anonymous data for legitimate and ethically approved research purposes, provided that they protect patients' privacy.
Last year, it received a mandate from the federal government’s Canadian Immunity Task Force to study COVID vaccination in the real-world setting. “We’ve been trying to get provincial vaccination data released since the spring of 2021, and so far, we have an agreement with the health ministry of British Columbia and are close to an agreement with Nova Scotia,” McRae told.
As a result, some research projects don’t get done or don't get completed soon enough to be useful to clinicians and policymakers, he said. “By the time we get the information, it’s outdated. The data from waves one and two of the pandemic are not applicable to the Delta and Omicron waves. We need to access data rapidly.
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