Guiding Our Public Health Response: Real-Time Integration of Diagnostics & Genomics
We hope you enjoy this next installment in our event summaries that we are preparing on a selection of our previous Speaker Series events. Each summary provides the reader with the presentation’s objective, what we heard as the key messages, next steps, and a link to the event’s recording. While this event series is conducted in English, these summaries have been translated into French. To see the French version of this event summary, please click here.
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Speaker
M Krajden
Objective
This summary provides an overview of the Speaker Series presentation led by Dr. Krajden on ‘Guiding Our Public Health Response: Real-Time Integration of Diagnostics & Genomics,’ originally held on March 2, 2021. In his presentation, Dr. Krajden described the work undertaken by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) to create a dashboard to track testing for COVID-19, including test turnaround rates, positivity rates, etc. This data set has allowed for detailed tracking of COVID‑19 cases and was used to identify trends in COVID‑19 infections and inform real-time provincial public health measures.