The saga behind attempts to give you the same COVID-19 data as other states
How many of WA’s coronavirus cases required treatment via a ventilator?
Seems a pretty simple but critical statistic, right?
But a WA Today journalist’s attempts to retrieve that figure, which most other states publish “without anyone even asking it”, was far from simple.
Press PLAY to hear Gareth Parker detail the WA Today saga, which he concurs fuels discontent around the government’s response