TORONTO Ontario long-term care homes dealing with staffing shortages and absentee leaders were more likely to have a higher risk of mortality during the first wave of the pandemic, an independent commission has heard. Researchers with the Canadian Institute for Health Information, an independent, not-for-profit organization, were asked by Ontario s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission to answer four questions through data analysis. The commission s goal was to better understand the likelihood of COVID-19 outbreaks, the severity of the outbreaks, the resident mortality rate and high-resident mortality rate in homes where 20 per cent or more of the residents died from the disease.
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On the anniversary of the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, CBC is taking a look at key graphs that help explain how the pandemic has shaped the country both in the short term and potentially for years to come.(Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters/Allison Cake/CBC Graphics)
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