ANALYSIS: The COVID-19 outbreaks in Winnipeg s for-profit and non-profit care homes winnipeg.ctvnews.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from winnipeg.ctvnews.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For-profit care homes have higher COVID-19 death rates among Winnipeg nursing homes
Manitobans died from COVID-19 outbreaks in for-profit personal care homes at a rate higher than in those run by the province or not-for-profit organizations, a CBC News analysis revealed.
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On the evening of March 11, 2020, Dr. Brent Roussin sat down to begin preparing a message he wasnât quite sure how Manitobans would respond to.
While COVID-19 had yet to hit the province, it had started to take its toll elsewhere in the world.
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First identified in the city of Wuhan in Central China in December 2019, the virus had begun its eventual worldwide spread. By March 11, the virus was ravaging Northern Italy and Europe was quickly turning into the epicentre of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2, or as weâd all become acutely aware â COVID-19.
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There is no COVID-19 number Premier Brian Pallister is more familiar with than the number of seniors who have died.
As of Wednesday, 821 people over the age of 60 in Manitoba have died in the last 12 months, since the first case of COVID-19 was announced. The number represents 90.4% of all COVID-19-related deaths.
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“I look at those numbers as people, they’re not numbers to me, they’re people to me, and we said goodbye to some precious people way too soon,” he said in an interview with the