'They're not machines': Deaths of health-care workers underline the strain of COVID-19
TORONTO -- A few months into the pandemic, a registered nurse in a Toronto-area long-term care facility told her son that they were âoverworked and understaffedâ at her job, and that she believed change was needed. He recorded the conversation, but itâs difficult for him to listen back to her voice now â his mother, 57-year-old Maureen Ambersley, died this week after contracting COVID-19. In Canada, some 30 health-care workers have died since the pandemic began. Ambersley, who worked at a care facility owned by Extendicare, told her son, Floyd, in May that working ...