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How shoring up hospitals for COVID-19 contributed to Canada's long-term care crisis

from Globe and Mail

How shoring up hospitals for COVID-19 contributed to Canada's long-term care crisis Globe and Mail In the early days of Canada’s coronavirus response, when officials were consumed with fears of overwhelmed hospitals and rationed ventilators, a hospital in Oshawa, ON, discharged an elderly patient named Nina Watt to a nearby nursing home. Three weeks later, Ms. Watt was dead. Orchard Villa, the nursing and retirement home to which she had been transferred, went on to experience one of the worst outbreaks in the country, with 77 dead of COVID-19, including Ms. Watt. READ MORE

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