Twenty-two residents from the Simcoe-Muskoka region have died at home with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
Those deaths do not include residents of long-term care homes who have died with the disease, but could include people living in retirement homes and group homes.
The Canadian Press reported last week there is an increase in the number of COVID patients dying at home in Ontario. Between April 1 and April 22, coroners have seen 25 cases of people in southern and central Ontario who have died of coronavirus disease at home. The ages of the victims ranged from the late 20s to their late 80s.
LORINC: How over-crowding has made housing lethal during pandemic
There were so many truly awful details about the death, from COVID-19, of 13-year-old Emily Victoria Viegas Brampton’s wall-to-wall hotspots, the lack of vaccination clinics, the over-burdened hospitals but one in particular jumped out at me: the family’s cramped apartment, and its enabling role in this tragedy.
Like so many working class and newcomer families, Emily, her brother, and her parents lived in a space that puts the lie to all the insistent public health rhetoric about social distancing. Once the virus got through the front door, there was no place to hide no basement guest room, no cottage, no spare bedroom. They were sitting ducks.
McMaster Children s Hospital preparing for unprecedented move to admit adult ICU patients
The hospital has readied two beds in its Women s Health ICU and other ward beds have been also been prepared, according to Dr. Christopher Sulowski, interim medical director of the pediatric emergency department.
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April 29, 2021 · 0 Comments
by SHERALYN ROMAN
For over a year now, Peel Region has been mostly locked away from the world.
We’ve been shut down, prevented from being together with family and many of us are afraid to so much as cross the threshold of our homes for a simple trip to the grocery store. With new variants running rampant in Peel and not enough vaccines to administer to our population, we are continually asked to trust in the government. We are asked to trust that vaccines will soon arrive and to trust that our overrun health care system will care for us IF we fall victim to COVID.