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The Toronto Star – Nine dead, more than 100 infected in ‘rapid’ COVID-19 outbreak at Barrie LTC home
Seniors advocate Laura Tamblyn Watts said the outbreak shows that Ontario didn’t make enough changes in the operation of long-term-care homes after the first wave of COVID-19 last spring. “We learned lessons, but most of them weren’t used,” said Watts, CEO of the advocacy group CanAge. Watts believes there were three key steps the provincial government should have taken.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/01/17/nine-dead-in-rapid-covid-19-outbreak-in-barrie-ltc-home.html
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