Federal Provincial Territorial COVID-19 web management working group/January 19 2021

Vaccine and travel rollout info/data

Most of the vaccine questions at the moment seem to be coming from seniors
Another feedback related area “how will I know when it’s my turn to get vaccinated?” - questions around when/ where individuals can get vaccinated
Other questions on how many people have been vaccinated - we’ve been seeing this trend up (what’s been administered in their province)
Further, tracking shipments in Canada - people are interested in how many/where they’ve been distributed in Canada
Other areas of concern have been about safety; we’re now seeing more questions about adverse reaction and if those with specific conditions asking whether they should or should not get vaccinated

Corporate IDs - Is Facebook’s individual identity verification something that other jurisdictions require their digital communications staff to provide? Have any governments been able to provide a single corporate identity verification to enable all department or ministry users to post COVID public health campaigns and other ads without providing their personal information? - Samantha Henney, Yukon

Samantha (yukon): Facebook has recently made it required that folks get authorization about campaigns, credit, funding - give Facebook a copy of their ID and Facebook sends them back a code to run these campaigns
Employees have been apprehensive about sending in personal information
Samantha wondering how other teams have managed corporate communications with Facebook, and the sensitivity around personal information/experiences

TeresaComplete the Digital identity process (upload their licence and get a unique id in the mail); were not able to get it for corporate identity and it was personal to those who were uploading it
MR (a few years ago on another team, ran into this as well)
This will be a need in coming years, a corporate ID not for individuals. That issue hasn’t been resolved yet either, but was on a case by case basis
Obvious issues of continuity when employees leave their positions
Nova Scotia ran into an issue that they weren’t able to post anything about flu vaccines because it was too “political”,were not given a reason, but then the decision was changed

Saskatchewan had a similar problem, it’s a small team that runs the GoS central facebook account

If there are major issues, they’ve escalated this to the executive council to their Government Relations contact at Facebook

Issue for all provinces at the moment is the # of recovered cases not showing accurately via Google
MBB and Nova Scotia would like to know if anyone has better information on markup data/ structured data with Google