It is inside long-term care homes that the COVID-19 outbreak is taking hold, and taking lives. Half the deaths from COVID-19 in Canada are in care homes. In the most grim cases, people are left to die, alone, in their beds.
And it's not like there were no warning signs.
Dawna Friesen talks to Dr. Samir Sinha, an advocate for the needs of older adults, he is the Director of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network Hospitals in Toronto.
Sinha talks about the extent of the outbreak and what the biggest failings of the industry have been that have allowed such a crisis to take hold in these homes.
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