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COVID-19 Provincial Diagnostic Network

The COVID-19 Provincial Diagnostic Network was a Canadian provincial public health program organized under Ontario Health. It consisted of "more than 40 independent hospitals, public health and community laboratories" across Ontario.[1]

History

Ontario Health launched the COVID-19 Provincial Diagnostic Network on March 29, 2020.[2]

Organization

Name Position Notes
Vanessa Allen Medical Director[3] Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table (OST)

Members

Network members included:[4]


  1. Sarkaria, P. (2022). A Plan to Stay Open (p. 32). Treasury Board Secretariat. https://web.archive.org/web/20240516065339/https://files.ontario.ca/tbs-a-plan-to-stay-open-en-2022-04-14.pdf ↩︎

  2. COVID-19 Provincial Diagnostic Network one-year anniversary. (2021, March 29). Ontario Health. https://web.archive.org/web/20210417112949/https://www.ontariohealth.ca/news/video/covid-19-provincial-diagnostic-network-one-year-anniversary ↩︎

  3. About Us. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20211224005143/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/#allen-vanessa ↩︎

  4. Russell, A., & Jarvis, C. (2020, October 21). Coronavirus: Inside the supply chain crisis slowing Canadian labs. Global News. http://archive.vn/2020.10.21-075836/https://globalnews.ca/news/7406308/coronavirus-inside-supply-chain-crisis/ ↩︎

  5. Rothstein, L. 2020-21 Annual Report (p. 6). Public Health Ontario. https://web.archive.org/web/20240902000827/https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Documents/A/2022/annual-report-2020-21.pdf ↩︎