PHAC changes how it reports vaccination data. But we cache it at GitHub and make good use of it!

URL: https://github.com/opencanada-info/phac-vaccination-coverage

The following article from Dr. Makis is not entirely right…

Trudeau government stopped reporting COVID-19 1st & 2nd booster vaccination data, and deleted it. Are they preparing for a Digital ID?

While PHAC has indeed changed the html pages, it still provides (as of today) the data in .csv format at the following link: "https://health-infobase.canada.ca/src/data/covidLive/vaccination-coverage-byAgeAndSex-overTimeDownload.csv” and these are used in http://www.opencanada.info/ tracker.

At the moment, the fields in the data that are the following:

 [1] "pruid"                              "prename"                            "prfname"                            "week_end"                          
 [5] "sex"                                "age"                                "numtotal_atleast1dose"              "numtotal_partially"                
 [9] "numtotal_fully"                     "numtotal_additional"                "numtotal_2nd_additional"            "numtotal_recent_fullyoradditional" 
[13] "proptotal_atleast1dose"             "proptotal_partially"                "proptotal_fully"                    "proptotal_additional"              
[17] "proptotal_2nd_additional"           "proptotal_recent_fullyoradditional"

But we do know that PHAC often changes the way reports data. So these data are now automatically cached every week at GitHub repo:
https://github.com/opencanada-info/phac-vaccination-coverage.

The graphs from these data are stored in folder /png in the same repository.

Some of these graphs are shown below and used in Excess Deaths analysis.

We can see that as of today there is data for “additional” and “2nd additional” doses