Ontario long-term care homes

• Ontario LTC minister says she didn’t go public with COVID-19 concerns because she’s no expert

  'You were ahead of the chief medical officer of health in many respects, from your notes anyway,' John Callaghan, the commission lawyer questioning Fullerton, told her.

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  Mar 1
• Deadline for written public submissions to Ontario’s long-term care commission on Tuesday

  Tuesday is the deadline for written submissions from the public to the commission examining the devastating impact of COVID-19 on long-term care homes.

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  Feb 16
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• Coronavirus: Ontario’s infection prevention team sidelined due to politics, commission hears

  The reorganization, which the province said would modernize the health-care system and save millions of dollars, occurred on Jan. 22, 2020.

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  Feb 12
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• COVID-19 vaccines ‘at risk of expiring’ given to family of non-frontline staff at Vaughan LTC home

  "We believed that getting the vaccine into a person’s arm was more beneficial than having it go to waste."

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  Feb 8
• Union says Windsor, Ont. LTC home failed to provide proper PPE during COVID-19 outbreak

  "They [the staff] trust that the employer will have proper personal protective equipment to keep them safe," Unifor said.

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  Feb 4
• Coronavirus: Ontario won’t make Feb. 5 goal of vaccinating all LTC, high-risk retirement residents

  The Ontario government is reporting it will now take until Feb. 10 to give the first shot to all long-term care, high-risk retirement and First Nations elder care home residents.

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  Feb 2
• Ontario modelling shows coronavirus cases declining, but variant poses ‘significant threat’

  "COVID-19 has an outsized impact on our health system and this means that the access to care deficit continues to grow."

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  Jan 28
• Coronavirus: Ontario government needs to make long-term care home changes, medical experts urge

  "In many circumstances, residents are also left without basic care, hygiene, food and water. This is a human rights violation."

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  Jan 26
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• Coronavirus: Speed up vaccines to Ontario long-term care homes to prevent deaths and cases, experts say

  Refocusing Ontario's COVID-19 vaccine rollout on LTC residents would prevent 115 deaths and hundreds more cases by the end of March, according to projections from experts.

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  Jan 22
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• Advisory group says speeding up vaccine rollout to Ontario LTC homes would prevent deaths, cases

  The brief published Thursday from experts advising the government on COVID-19 predicts that administering a first dose to all long-term care residents by Jan. 31 would save lives.

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  Jan 22