Doctor says Canada underfunding long-term care amid call to end for-profit homes
By: Solarina Ho
“I think partly that also speaks to what’s happening underneath. We often have municipal and not-for-profit providers that actually supplement the meager amounts of money they get from the government so they can actually provide more staffing. And more staffing tends to mean better care,” Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the NIA.
Should Canada Put an End to for profit long term care?
Dr, Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the NIA joins CTV Your Morning.
‘I really am totally speechless’: With about half of Ontario LTC residents still not vaccinated, experts question province’s priorities
By: Kenyon Wallace
“This is a breathtaking failure,” said Dr. Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the NIA. “I cannot comprehend why they would not move heaven and earth to vaccinate every single long-term-care resident as soon as possible.”
Should nursing homes use rapid tests for COVID-19? It depends on who you ask
By: Kenyon Wallace
Dr. Nathan Stall, NIA Associate Fellow pointed out that it can already be onerous for nursing homes to screen staff weekly with the lab-based PCR test.
Seniors living independently feel ‘forgotten’ as others prioritized for COVID-19 vaccines
By Rachel Gilmore
Dr. Samir Sinha’s phone rang on Saturday, as he said it often does these days. This time, the patient calling was a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor. “[He] called me on Saturday begging me, begging me to find him a vaccine sooner rather than later. He’s been locked in his house for an entire year,” Sinha, who serves as the director of health policy research at the NIA.
‘I’d be up that guy’s ying-yang so far with a firecracker’: Doug Ford has advice for Justin Trudeau as Pfizer cuts vaccine shipments
By Rob Ferguson
Not vaccinating all of them by now is “one of the most inexplicable failures of the pandemic,” Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the NIA, told the Star as Ontario reported another 29 deaths in long-term care in the previous 24 hours with another 75 residents and 57 staff testing positive for the highly contagious virus. “This is going to cost hundreds of needless, vaccine-preventable COVID-19 cases and deaths,” Stall added, noting Alberta has completed vaccinations in its nursing homes and Quebec and British Columbia are almost done.
Ontario seniors who live independently feel shut out by COVID-19 vaccine rollout
By: May Warren
But for the moment, that leaves people like the Millers — and the 98-year-old Holocaust survivor who recently called Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the NIA in Toronto, begging for the vaccine — shut out. “I think what’s bothering the public and frankly what’s bothering me, is that we’re actually really kind of almost becoming less precise by the day,” Sinha said. “I would be OK if it weren’t as speedy if I knew that the people who needed the vaccine the most were getting it.”
‘There should not be a dip on weekends’: Ontario once again reports weekend vaccination slowdown
By Kenyon Wallace
For every day a person’s COVID-19 vaccination is delayed, that’s another day “you’re delaying them an opportunity to build their immune system to protect them from COVID. It’s as simple as that,” said Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the NIA, adding that weekend slowdowns are not acceptable at this stage of the pandemic.
Ontario Seniors Worry About Vaccination Rollout
Guest host, Mary Ito speaks with Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the NIA, about seniors concern around the vaccine rollout.
Ontario seniors 'living in fear' of COVID-19 feel forgotten in vaccine rollout plan
"The numbers don't lie," said Dr. Samir Sinha, director of Health Policy Research at the NIA. "And yet our government is basically following a kind of a plan that I don't actually think really follows the science."
A shot of euphoria, a dose of regret: Some health-care professionals who got vaccinated before front-line workers have second thoughts
By Nadine Yousif
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Samir Sinha dreamed of the day a safe vaccine would be available. “We’ve lost patients, and we’ve seen so many colleagues negatively impacted by this catastrophic virus,” said Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the NIA.
Canada has secured more vaccine doses per capita than anyone else, but it’s been slow to administer them
By: Amanda Coletta
“The vaccine rollout across our country has lacked speed,” said Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the NIA in Toronto. “It has lacked urgency. It has lacked transparency. And it has started to deviate from some of the priority populations . . . who need it most.”
Vaccine versus Variant: Ontario is in a race to protect the most vulnerable from COVID-19
By: Elizabeth Payne
Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the NIA, calls the province’s vaccination rollout “a total failure. They are just getting it wrong.” “The entire rollout has been bungled. We have not been treating this like the emergency it is. We continue to leave tens of thousands vulnerable and the timelines are completely unacceptable.”
Ontario’s LTC ‘needs all the help we can get’
Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the National Institute on Ageing joined CTV News to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in Ontario's long term care homes.
Pressure mounts to curb COVID-19 crisis in long-term care homes
Ontario’s long-term care homes are once again at the centre of the province’s COVID-19 crisis. Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the NIA, joined Global National to discuss.
Ottawa willing to strike separate deals with provinces to address problems in long-term care, senior official says
By: Tonda MacCharles
“I think side deals are going to be the only way you can actually get us to where we want to be in the end,” said Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the NIA.
Dr. Samir Sinha joins Nate to talk about how we’ve failed to protect our seniors, and the changes we need to make going forward, including targeted vaccine roll-out to seniors at risk, national standards for long-term care, and action to help seniors stay in their homes.
Nova Scotia vaccine delivery lags behind other provinces, but rollout plan remains on target
By: Jesse Thomas
Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the NIA, says vaccines aren’t doing any good sitting in freezers and says the priority should be getting those shots to vulnerable long-term care home residents.
Ontario’s Vaccine rollout plan
We learned more about Ontario's vaccine rollout plan but Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the NIA, is one of those frustrated at how long it's taking to vaccinate long-term care residents.
With the majority of COVID-19 deaths happening in long-term care homes, why are some residents still not vaccinated? Geriatrician Dr. Nathan Stall talks about whether vaccination efforts are moving too slowly to protect as many residents as possible.
