Long-term care home residents were kept in a blind spot in the early days of the pandemic in March 2020, according to a long-awaited coroner’s report. Coroner Géhane Kamel’s inquest looked at 53 deaths in long-term care during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, including 47 at the Herron, a private Montreal-area care home. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports.
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