Alberta’s change to COVID data reporting leaves parents concerned

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website for wastewater data for the past few years. Lately, it’s been used as part of their planning to reintroduce more pre-pandemic activities.Cammidge, who owns an insurance brokerage, is very familiar with risk management and reading data, and his wife has a background in health care.

He said the change in COVID reporting reduces his family’s ability to assess their own risk.“I deal with risk every day,” he said. “(The government has) really eliminated our ability to actually assess risk and determine whether we should be taking the risk or not.”Early in the pandemic, the Cammidges quickly pivoted to wearing masks and other measures in order to prevent exposure to a novel virus that has since been found to increase risk of heart disease, kidney failure and type 1 diabetes in kids.With another school year on the near horizon, Cammidge’s wife said the lack of COVID reporting is preventing her from being able to assess the risk in the community before sending their kids back to school.For the past three years, Albertans have been able to visit the CHI website for COVID wastewater data for towns and cities province-wide.On Monday, it posted a notice that as of July 31, that role was being transitioned to Alberta Health and Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL).Influenza and RSV in wastewater will continue to be monitored by the Pan-Alberta Wastewater Monitoring Team that includes members from the U of C and University of Alberta.“We are proud to have provided this public health service to the citizens of Alberta for the last three years, in partnership with the University of Alberta, Alberta Health Services, (Alberta Health), APL and municipalities across the province,” the U of C said in a statement.The province said the