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Ontario care home where 81 died turned down advice on COVID-19 isolation rooms: emails

July 20, 2021

Newly obtained emails from Toronto Public health suggest the Tendercare long-term care home, which had the deadliest COVID-19 outbreak in Ontario, ignored advice that could have helped save lives. More than 300 staff and residents tested positive for COVID-19, and 81 residents died. Carolyn Jarvis has details of the advice that was not followed.

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