Counting COVID-19 in Canada’s Long-Term Care Homes: NIA Long-Term Care COVID-19 Tracker Summary Report
In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to intensify around the world, experts and front-line workers sounded the alarm about its potential impact on older populations. The NIA reacted quickly by establishing the Long-Term Care COVID-19 Tracker Open Data Working Group and developing the NIA Long-Term Care COVID-19 Tracker: a web-based mapping system that could track outbreaks across 6,029 long-term care (LTC) and retirement homes in every Canadian province and territory, including the number of cases and deaths among staff and residents.