Canada’s Nursing Home Deaths

Deaths in nursing homes compensate for a staggering 81 per cent of deaths from coronavirus in Canada, a study states.

According to The Washington Post, the shocking figure credited to Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam is almost twice that of the U.S.

“We shouldn’t have soldiers taking care of seniors,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau allegedly said last month, after the deployment of the country ‘s troops to support hard-hit installations in Ontario and Quebec.  “In the weeks and months to come, we will all have to ask tough questions about how it came to this.”

100 people in one building outside Toronto. Actively fighting the coronavirus, including 40 team members, while another 57 people have died from it, the Post says.

Advocates told the newspaper that crowded quarters and moving workers, many of whom work part-time shifts at several facilities to earn a living, were two reasons that led to the frequency of illnesses within nursing homes in Canada.

“It wasn’t inevitable that this had to happen, and that’s the most troubling thing,” Nathan Stall, a geriatrist at the Sinai Health System in Toronto, told The Washington Post, referring to initial decisions made by elected officials to focus their response to coronavirus in hospitals.

‘The decision-makers’ fear was driven by young people on ventilators in New York City, and it didn’t move the societal needle that people were dying in nursing homes elsewhere or even in our own country,” he added.