Community spread of COVID-19 is again seeping into Canada’s long-term care homes.
British Columbia reported four new outbreaks at long-term care homes over the weekend, and there are now almost 20 outbreaks at long-term care, assisted living and acute care facilities in the province.
In Ontario, 86 long-term care facilities now have outbreaks and more than 1900 residents have died.
Nationally, about 80 per cent of COVID-19 related deaths have been in long-term care.
Hiring and retaining staff in the facilities remains a huge issue, but as Mike Drolet reports there are concerns the solutions being considered are nothing more than band-aids.
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bibulous3825
The most vaccinated are sick and dying. Vaccines are poison.
Call Me Ishmael
Once again under threat? Is there even ONE actual journalist working at Global News? Because if there was, they’d know these official stats as reported by the provincial and federal governments:
64.9% of all COVID deaths in Ontario were long-term care residents (1,980 out of 3,050 total deaths, as of October 18th)
66.7% of all COVID deaths in Quebec were long-term care residents (4,027 out of 6,037 total deaths, as of October 18th)
69.6% of all COVID deaths in B.C. were long-term care residents (174 out of 250 total deaths, as of October 15th)
71.0% of all COVID deaths in Canada were long-term care residents (6,949 out of 9,778 total deaths, as of October 19th)
COVID was, and still is, a long-term care disease. That is where it has, and continues to do, the most damage. And yet governments CONTINUE to fail the residents of such facilities, letting them get sick and die from this virus, while focusing pointless attention and strictures on the general public which are at FAR less risk.
There’s a scandal you could sink your teeth into, Global News, if you had any actual journalists working there. But you don’t.
WHALEoilBEEF Hooked
Yeah, it wasn’t long ago that reporters were given safe access to people and places in exchange for trusted journalism. Journalism is no longer trustworthy. The Smith Mundt Modernization Act is about promoting propaganda for a government fixed agenda to control the actions, health and general mind set of the humans who’ve been self-trained to watch TV and obey their political masters.
Jeff Johnson
Just think about the massive resources we could have put towards protecting the truly vulnerable against covid if governments had let non-vulnerable people continue as normal while building a herd immunity and hadn’t capriciously shut down the entire economy and spent hundreds of billions in the process.
One Love
I have seen PSW’s not wearing their masks, this could be how it’s brought into long term care homes
Lu Phillips
Because facilities they don’t wanna provide proper mask for them
KIRK Tha GOONER
A GAIN. EH
ricky starduster
Its the staff getting covid and bringing it into the seniors homes because they are over worked and under staffed and any jo blow with a police check are they crazy what about liabilities i know their insurance will go up the roof and as they mentioned in the article what if an untrained person is called over to help lift and the senior ends up falling and being injured lawsuits will happen if a senior is injured. this is certainly a slippery slope and with covid running rampant in the seniors homes the reason the red cross doesnt want to release the numbers is because people are not applying
lillian arellano
There needs to be an examination of where the medications are coming from how are they processed what fillers and additives are used what shortcuts are used everyone is human but it needs to be examined
Chris Porter
Yet they justify shutting down small businesses. They had all summer to get a grip on this. It’s a failure from all levels of government.
Jake Ralph
Political virus where the goal posts are continuously moved to accommodate the Globalist agenda. Spread the fear Globalist News.
Saylor Pineda Lorelai Arnold
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