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The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be deadlier for Canadians living in long-term care and retirement homes, particularly in provinces that failed to prepare for a resurgence of the coronavirus.
A new report by the National Institute on Ageing says 7,470 people in seniors’ homes succumbed to the coronavirus over the past six months. During the first wave, by comparison, 7,022 residents died.
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NDP Leader Holds Discussion on Long-Term Care Crisis – February 11, 2021
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh hosts a virtual discussion on the long-term care crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. He is joined by NDP MPs Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) and Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood-Transcona), as well as Brianne Goertzen, provincial director of the Manitoba Health Coalition, and Larry Baillie, whose father died at the Maples Personal Care Home in Winnipeg. That facility was the site of a deadly COVID-19 outbreak that was declared on October 20, 2020. There were 56 deaths linked to the outbreak, and 157 residents and 74 staff members tested positive. (no interpretation)
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Eddie Calisto-Tavares father died in the Maples Personal Care Home COVID-19 outbreak.
Despite the desperate pleas of family members to the Manitoba government to send help to their loved ones at Maples Personal Care Home, which was stricken with a COVID-19 outbreak last fall, health officials failed to notice the emerging crisis.
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Despite the desperate pleas of family members to the Manitoba government to send help to their loved ones at Maples Personal Care Home, which was stricken with a COVID-19 outbreak last fall, health officials failed to notice the emerging crisis.
In late October, families with loved ones in Maples told the media they were seriously concerned about staffing levels and infections. That was a week into what became the province’s largest and deadliest personal care home outbreak.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s health minister says the government is committed to meeting all the recommendations in a report on how COVID-19 was able to rapidly spread during a deadly outbreak at a personal. . .