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‘Like a war zone’ says nurse looking back at severe COVID-19 outbreak at Toronto’s Downsview Long-Term Care Centre

March 9, 2021

Global Toronto's Caryn Lieberman takes a look inside Downsview Long-Term Care Centre and Humber River Hospital where staff are still visibly shaken after dealing with some severe COVID-19 outbreaks. Downsview went through one period where they lost 63 residents and one staff member. "It was like a war zone...I don't know what got us through" says Andrea Cuff, a Registered Practical Nurse at Downsview.

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