Last Updated Wednesday, January 20, 2021 5:10AM EST Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says the province s minister of long-term care is attempting to downplay the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care homes after Minister Merrilee Fullerton accused the official opposition of spreading misinformation. Fullerton, Ontario’s minister of long-term care, told reporters Tuesday that the NDP was using “misinformation” to stoke fear and anxiety in staff and residents of long-term care homes in the province. “If we look at the actual numbers of outbreaks across Ontario, there is a much smaller number of homes that actually have resident cases and from there, a much smaller number of homes that actually have a serious outbreak. And that is where the energy is going to make sure we shore up these homes,” she said at a news conference on Tuesday.
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A physician is calling for provincial assistance at an Ontario long-term care home hit by nine deaths and more than 100 COVID-19 infections in a little more than a week.
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit declared a facility-wide outbreak at the Roberta Place long-term care home in Barrie on Jan. 8. On Sunday, the facility confirmed nine resident deaths, 62 confirmed resident cases and 43 confirmed staff cases. Two essential visitors have also tested positive.
COVID has made local opioid crisis even more challenging
The opioid crisis is the focus of this week s Our Health panel
Jan 18, 2021 10:30 AM By: Andrew Philips
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While most of us are focusing on one pandemic right now, there’s another dangerous threat that is no less frightening.
Opioid use and abuse should also be considered a pandemic, many health and law-enforcement officials say.
And while this pandemic isn’t receiving the same amount of media coverage or government dollars, its scourge continues to affect a wide swath of the nation’s population.
On Thursday, this month’s Our Health series will delve into the opioid crisis in detail by hearing from a public-health nurse, a mother, an emergency room physician and an officer with the OPP s organized crime enforcement bureau as they describe the devastating impact opioids has had on their lives and on society.
SHARE ON: One of the residents that got the vaccine last week (Photo credit: Fairvern Nursing Home on Facebook)
A sign that was placed at the front of the nursing home while residents were getting vaccinated (Photo credit: Fairvern Nursing Home on Facebook)
The first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been administered at Fairvern Nursing Home in Huntsville.
The home says the vaccine was given last week to all residents that consented to it. “It was a day filled with many smiles from residents and staff as we were the first long term care home in Muskoka to get the vaccine,” officials with Fairvern said on Facebook.