Ontario is reporting 3,480 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 50,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 961 new cases in Toronto, 589 in Peel, 341 in Niagara and 290 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 4,907,203 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) April 28, 2021
Ontario largely ignored long-term care as COVID-19 crisis began, internal documents reveal
Internal government documents obtained by CBC News show few signs that Ontario prepared the long-term care sector for the risks from COVID-19 before the virus began its deadly spread through the province’s nursing homes.
CBC News asked the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Long-Term Care for all reports, memos and briefing notes concerning the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 and long-term care homes in February, March and April of 2020.
Only a handful of documents from the ministries mention protecting long-term care residents in February, even as cases were steadily arriving in Ontario and the devastation from the infections in Italy became apparent.
I still don’t understand how my late Mother was never offered the vaccine while confined to a physio-rehab hospital. A hospital where the majority of patients were elderly and which had previous outbreaks. She passed away March 5th from Covid she contracted in that hospital. Why was she and so many others left unprotected?
