OTTAWA—The new coronavirus will keep killing people in long-term care facilities even after the overall spread of COVID-19 starts to slow, Canada’s top public health officer warns. “The rate of death in long-term care is somewhere between 10 and 20 times higher than the same cohort outside long-term care,” he told the Star, based on computer modelling with recent data. The pandemic has hit other long-term care facilities hard. Ontario took similar restrictive measures to protecting long-term care residents weeks ago but infections and deaths have continued to climb in nursing homes, with at least 120 dead. Even as widespread health measures like isolation and social distancing start reducing the spread of the virus, Tam said deaths will continue to climb because of outbreaks in these care facilities.

Source: thestar April 14, 2020 00:00 UTC