Ontario long term care commission grills top public health doctor over failures during coronavirus pandemic's 1st wave
Last Updated Thursday, February 25, 2021 1:27PM EST Ontario’s Commission into long-term care tore into the province’s top public health official during a hearing this week, where he conceded homes could not evacuate healthy patients to anywhere but a hospital, were not warned of asymptomatic spread early on and sometimes got positive COVID-19 test results by mail. A Commission lawyer asked Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Williams if he thought facilities should have evacuated or “decanted” health residents during outbreaks, to which he replied that there were not en...