COVID-19 dashboard available only to Saskatchewan Health Authority leaders no longer includes the number of people who died from the disease.Global News obtained images of the dashboard on several occasions.
The latest, from Feb. 9, shows the number of people hospitalized at that time (387), the number of adults and children in intensive care units (27 and 2, respectively) and the number of infectious people in long-term care homes.Images of the dashboard from Jan.
19 and Feb. 1 show those same categories as well as the number of confirmed deaths, the amount of new tests and positive cases and the total active cases.Multiple sources confirmed to Global News that doctors asked health authority leadership about the change in a virtual town hall meeting on Thursday evening.
Health-care leaders referred the doctor asking to the government.The difference between the dashboard showing more and less information corresponds with the province’s change to how it would report COVID data to the public, moving from daily updates to weekly ones.The first weekly update, which the government released on Feb.