We also will be responding in writing to those questions, Dr. Duncan.
In terms of hospitalization, the data available from the Public Health Agency of Canada—and there are various ways of getting information from the Public Health Agency of Canada, but also then directly from our regional offices—show that out of almost 1,500 hospitalized cases, about 17.5% were aboriginal, not only first nations. Of the 288 admitted to intensive care units, 15.3% were aboriginal. And out of the 76 deaths, nine or 11.8% were aboriginal.
The aboriginal population of Canada is about 4% and that of first nations around 2%. So it's undoubtedly the case that there is an overrepresentation of aboriginal peoples in those data, which one can try to analyse in a variety of ways. If the disease is present in a first nations community, for example, and if, for reasons that I think we well know in terms of challenges in those communities, it may spread more rapidly—this is what we saw in Manitoba—then, given that this is where the disease occurred and spread in the way it did, this overrepresentation may not be surprising.