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Roberta Place, the central Ontario long-term care home devastated by an outbreak of a highly contagious variant of COVID-19 is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit from residents' families who allege their loved ones were neglected by those charged with keeping them safe.
TORONTO -- More than a year after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Canada, several new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have developed that are causing concern within the scientific and medical community. A variant is identified when enough mutations have occurred to change a minor portion of a virusâs genetic code. There have been other variants prior to the recent ones, but they were generally no more concerning than the existing virus. Some changes are concerning due to the ease with which the variants attach themselves to human cells, making them much more transmis...
VANCOUVER -- The COVID-19 pandemic in B.C. has relentlessly targeted long-term care homes with elderly residents making up the majority of the province's 1,210 deaths related to the disease. Monday's announcement that the Canadian Red Cross would provide additional boots on the ground in the province begged the question, “why now?” Currently, there are half as many outbreaks in long-term care homes as there were two weeks ago in B.C. “Even though the number of outbreaks has declined this is a very challenging time in long-term care,” said Health Minister Adrian Dix on Monday. ...
Two Toronto area seniors homes limit visits from Barrie over COVID-19 variant risk by Holly McKenzie-Sutter, THE CANADIAN PRESS Posted Jan 31, 2021 5:52 pm EDT This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the spherical particles of the new coronavirus, colorized blue, from the first U.S. case of COVID-19. Researchers in Canada say the best early-warning system for a second wave of COVID-19 may be right beneath our feet, in the sewers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP) Summary Two retirement faci...
Article content A COVID-19 outbreak was declared in the facility on Jan. 8, 2021, and since then, more than 200 people have contracted the virus, including all but one of the residents. More than 60 residents and an essential caregiver have died. Officials with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit have confirmed that at least some of the residents have a highly transmissible variant of the virus that was originally discovered in the U.K., and the region’s top doctor says he believes everyone infected at the long-term care home has that variant, but testing is still underway. The statemen...