Crosses laid out on a lawn near the Camilla Care Community, a long term care home in Mississauga, are photographed on April 13, 2020. Fifty residents of the facility died of the coronavirus.Canada has done a far worse job of protecting nursing-home residents from the coronavirus than other wealthy countries, according to a new analysis that shows the places that fared best made sweeping changes at seniors’ facilities as soon as they shut their societies down.
“Those countries that layered on more mandatory prevention measures [in long-term care], along with their stay-at-home orders and their closure of public places, have done better,” said Tracy Johnson, CIHI’s director of health systems analysis and emerging issues. “They’ve had fewer COVID-19 infections and fewer deaths in long-term care.”
“I believe the province treated my parents and the people in long-term care as not full citizens, so they didn’t fully protect them,” Mr. McVeigh said. “Their priorities were to protect the hospitals and to prevent the spread in the community.”
That’s because LTC is private and the operators cut too many corners to make $$$
tip: if you're going to use abbreviations you'd better be certain most Canadians know what OECD means. besides, you have more than enough characters to spell it out in your tweet
“It was actually Ontario and Quebec’s failure to enact safeguards for seniors’ facilities at the outset of the crisis – such as broad testing, mandatory use of personal protective equipment and the isolation of infected residents – that seemed to doom the sector, (CIHI) found.”
How tragic and irresponsible
Shame on us.
rexglacer No Fkn kidding. I’ve seen it first hand
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