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As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Care home administrators and the organization that represents many such facilities in the province are trying to persuade Manitoba s vaccine task force to let the same nurses looking after residents give shots to fellow staff members.
Jan Legeros, executive director of the Long Term & Continuing Care Association of Manitoba, said the group is hearing from member facilities that between 40 to 45 per cent of care home staff have been vaccinated.
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It was the fax that changed everything. I ll never forget that gut-wrenching feeling when the case came back positive, says River East Personal Care Home administrator Kim Rohm, thinking back to Nov. 12. We were surprised.
A couple of days earlier, one of the 120 residents experiencing possible symptoms of COVID-19 was tested. The symptoms disappeared the next day.
Then the fax arrived. We now had COVID in our building, Rohm says. The second case came shortly after. Then it ramped up quickly. I ll never forget that gut-wrenching feeling when the case came back positive, says River East Personal Care Home administrator Kim Rohm, thinking back to Nov. 12. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
WINNIPEG Deaths in long-term care homes account for around half of all COVID-19 fatalities in Manitoba. It’s a stark reminder of the devastating toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on vulnerable and elderly people. Looking back over the past year, advocates, experts and families point to a system they feel was unprepared for a threat hidden in plain sight one that some relatives say wasn’t taken seriously until it was too late. “We’re all going to end up in places like this at one point or another,” said Alvin Cadonic, who has an aunt and an uncle living at Maples Personal Care Home. “Really, we’re just fighting for own futures as well as the futures of our relatives that can’t advocate on their own.”