❓ Hon Ben Dawkins questions the removal of weekly COVID-19 data reports from the Department of Health website and seeks access to the raw data, also questioning the grouping of 'not vaccinated' and 'unknown vaccination status' in previous reports. The Minister responds that the data is now in the Virus WAtch report and vaccination status reporting is based on Commonwealth Medicare data.
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CORONAVIRUS — DATA UPDATES
1322. Hon BEN DAWKINS to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Health:
I
refer to the Covid-19 weekly statistics, also called the WA Covid-19 data
update, published by the Department of Health
for the calendar year 2022, which provided the weekly COVID-19 cases,
hospitalisations and ICU snapshots.
(1) Why have these weekly reports
been removed from the Department of Health website?
(2) Is the raw data on which these
reports were based available; and, if so, where might they be accessed?
(3) Noting that
the WA Covid-19 data update at the time grouped together statistics for ''not
vaccinated'' and ''unknown vaccination status'', why was
there no separate category for ''unknown vaccination status'';
and has the department since determined the statistics for ''not
vaccinated''?
1322. Hon BEN DAWKINS to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Health:
I
refer to the Covid-19 weekly statistics, also called the WA Covid-19 data
update, published by the Department of Health
for the calendar year 2022, which provided the weekly COVID-19 cases,
hospitalisations and ICU snapshots.
(1) Why have these weekly reports
been removed from the Department of Health website?
(2) Is the raw data on which these
reports were based available; and, if so, where might they be accessed?
(3) Noting that
the WA Covid-19 data update at the time grouped together statistics for ''not
vaccinated'' and ''unknown vaccination status'', why was
there no separate category for ''unknown vaccination status'';
and has the department since determined the statistics for ''not
vaccinated''?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question. The following answer has been provided by the
Minister for Health.
(1)–(2) The
WA Covid-19 data can now be found in the weekly Virus WAtch report. This
information includes retrospective reports, thus real-time data is not
reliable.
(3) WA Health's reporting of
vaccination status is based on the commonwealth's Medicare data.
some notice of the question. The following answer has been provided by the
Minister for Health.
(1)–(2) The
WA Covid-19 data can now be found in the weekly Virus WAtch report. This
information includes retrospective reports, thus real-time data is not
reliable.
(3) WA Health's reporting of
vaccination status is based on the commonwealth's Medicare data.
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