Ethics approval
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is a public
health agency with the mandate to perform applied analytics to support
policy and practice in British Columbia under the Public Health Act. The
BCCDC obtained authorization from the BC Ministry of Health to use the
COVID-19 Data Library to generate evidence about the impacts of the EHE,
and the Ministry of Health has reviewed the manuscript to ensure its
consistency with data governance policies.