23 cases of COVID-19 identified in outbreak at Kelowna care home where most residents, staff vaccinated cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Brenda Brophy March 08, 2021 - 6:00 AM Brenda Brophy and the dozens of people in her Facebook support group don’t want to observe a sad anniversary on March 17. That’s the date last year when most long-term care homes in B.C. were locked down because of COVID-19. At 6 p.m. on March 17, 2020 she walked out of her mother’s long-term care home as it was being locked down. Cutting off visitation rights is not uncommon in long-term care homes when there are flu or outbreaks of other illnesses. But this one was different. “My mom kept saying to me, how long is this going to go on for?” Brophy said. “I said maybe a couple of weeks. I knew that was B.S. but, in my mind, I remember thinking it would probably be four weeks because that would be two incubation periods.”
Posted: Feb 04, 2021 1:00 AM PT | Last Updated: February 4
A CBC News analysis shows that private for-profit care homes in B.C. have been disproportionately hit with more deadly and widespread COVID-19 outbreaks during the pandemic, compared to non-profit or government-run facilities. Tomorrow, CBC will report on which facilities had the worst outbreaks.(iStock)
B.C. needs an independent agency to investigate civil rights violations in long-term care
The biggest problem for citizens living in long-term care facilities is they have no practical way to enforce their civil rights, writes Paul Caune, an advocate for people with disabilities.
Social Sharing
Seniors, people with disabilities have rights enshrined in Canadian law but need a way to enforce them
Paul Caune · For CBC News Opinion ·
Posted: Jan 28, 2021 4:00 AM PT | Last Updated: January 28
The biggest problem for citizens living in long-term care (LTC) facilities is they have no practical way to enforce their civil rights, writes Paul Caune, an advocate for people with disabilities. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
VANCOUVER It s been one year since the first COVID-19 case was publicly announced in B.C. and since then, the province has seen more than 1,000 people die from the disease, restrictions come and go and the promise of vaccine ahead. Jan. 28, 2020, marked the first time a case of the novel coronavirus was formally announced in B.C. after a man who travelled to the province from Wuhan, China, tested positive. Since then, more than 65,000 people have also tested positive in the province. In the last 12 months, British Columbians have experienced varying degrees of public health orders, from closures of many businesses in March to an economic restart in the spring and summer, then back to severe social restrictions as the province entered its second wave in the fall.