Jennifer Kwan | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Institutions | McMaster University |
| Website | https://jkwanmd.com/ |
Jennifer Kwan is a Canadian family physician and health care advocate, with work primarily based around the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario.
Kwan is based in Burlington, Ontario. [1]
Kwan is best known for her synthesis of publicly available COVID-19 data in Ontario into a series of accessible graphs via her Twitter handle @jkwan_md, on a daily basis. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Kwan also reports the daily number of recorded deaths, which notably, is omitted in daily updates from the Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott's social media account. [6]
Kwan co-founded the Masks4Canada group to advocate about the role of masks and face coverings in reducing COVID-19 transmission, and also co-founded the Doctors for Justice in Long-Term Care (Docs4LTCJustice) campaign to call on the Government of Ontario to take action to control the spread of COVID-19 in long-term care homes. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] She has spoken about different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the high levels of anxiety among Canadian doctors, the logistics of the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out across Ontario, and public health practices, for multiple media outlets. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
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