Table 3. Identification of province and territories that are short of samples by healthcare visits population^a,b.

Province/territory	E c	wp(healthcare, t)	d(healthcare, t)
BC	34,522	1,349	593
AB	29,809	1,164
SKd	7,982	312
MBd	9,304	363
ON	99,371	3,882
QC	57,668	2,253
NBd	5,268	206
NSd	6,602	258
PEd	1,068	42
NLd	3,522	138
YKd	277	11
NTd	303	12
NVd	264	10

Abbreviations: AB, Alberta; BC, British Columbia; MB, Manitoba; NB, New Brunswick; NL, Newfoundland and Labrador; NS, Nova Scotia; NT, Northwest Territories; NV, Nunavut; PE, Prince Edward Island; ON, Ontario; QC, Québec; SK, Saskatchewan; YK, Yukon

^a Identification of province and territories that are short of samples by healthcare visits population as based on the number of expected healthcare visits, E, translated into weight points, wp(healthcare, t), and compared to the number of weighted samples d(healthcare, t) needed to detect COVID-19 in the healthcare visits population at p₀

^b Values are rounded up

^c Expected number of samples from healthcare visits at the provincial/territorial level, E, and this number translated into weight points towards detecting COVID-19, wp(healthcare, t)

^d Identification of province and territories that are short of samples by healthcare visits population