October 13, 2021 — The Globe and Mail

COVID-19 outbreaks rising in long-term care homes across the country

The exponential growth in COVID-19 infections is occurring even as the tools that can keep the coronavirus out of seniors homes are readily available, health care experts say. But provincial leaders have been slow to roll out vaccine booster shots to residents as an extra layer of protection against the highly transmissible Delta variant, as well as make it mandatory for staff, family caregivers and visitors to get inoculated against COVID-19.

“Why we would hold back on two measures we know could materially make a difference really boggles my mind,” Samir Sinha, director of geriatrics at the University of Health Network and Sinai Health System, said in an interview.