April 28, 2021 - CBC News
Ontario largely ignored long-term care as COVID-19 crisis began, internal documents reveal
Long-term care homes "were left totally unprotected," said Dr. Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the NIA. "They were last in line to get personal protective equipment, they had insufficient infection prevention and control procedures, and they were largely excluded from provincial planning," he said in an interview Tuesday. "Everything was focused on acute care and critical care, often to the exclusion of long-term care."