March 31, 2021 – Toronto Star
Toronto asks province to let anyone aged 60 and older get COVID-19 vaccination — lowering threshold a full decade
The biggest failure is how Canada failed to protect elderly residents living in long-term care homes in not just the first wave, but also the second resurgence — unforgivable in a system that was exposed as fragile many years ago by the National Institute on Ageing at Ryerson University. That’s on all of us. Other countries like the U.K., which experienced steeper first and second waves of COVID-19, did not experience nearly the same rate of death among vulnerable nursing home residents.