An email correspondence between Samantha Chowieri and the CIUSSS shows that Chowieri requested PPE from the regional health agency on March 23 but was denied. Within weeks, a quarter of those patient attendants would test positive for COVID-19. At the end of that shift, the last remaining LPN on Herron's staff went home and never came back. Patient attendants said in the week after the authority took over, they worked without personal protective equipment even as the coronavirus spread like wildfire. In a statement, the regional health agency said it was not until the evening of April 10 that it obtained the information that 31 people died.

Source: CBC News April 18, 2020 00:30 UTC