“Of the cases where we have the data on whether someone was in a long-term care facility or seniors residence, we know that close to half of the deaths that we’re tracking are linked to long-term care facilities,” Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said on Monday.
“But that ratio is actually different in different provinces,” she said, warning that “these deaths will continue to increase, even as the epidemic growth rate slows down.”Joining the daily ministerial update on the novel coronavirus, Seniors Minister Deb Schulte said that heeding the newly-released advice is “critical” in slowing the pandemic's spread within seniors’ homes, as they are at a high risk.
In an interview on CTV’s Power Play, Schulte said the new guidelines aren’t meant to say the workers in these facilities are not doing enough, but there is “no doubt” the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed holes where improvements are needed. “We didn’t have a playbook,” she said about how to handle care for seniors in relation to this novel coronavirus.
As of when the news conference ended, the total number of deaths in Canada was 767, with the number of confirmed cases at 25,546.
AnnieClaireBO Liberals just “Heeding guidelines” say it all doesn’t it?
Face the TRUTH re long term elderly care/old age residences, this neglect causing death by dehydration was happening long before COVID 19 due to a culture of protectionism in a failing underfunded medical system. I saw my uncle die of dehydration over many days due to neglect.