After the flood: How the next wave (or waves) of COVID-19 will look in Canada
By Richard Warnica
In the first wave, the main victims, 82 per cent of them, according to a Ryerson University (National Institute on Ageing) count, have been vulnerable people, most of them seniors, living in long-term care. Those deaths will go down as one of the worst humanitarian tragedies in Canadian history. But the way they were clustered could have a dangerous effect on the broader public too, especially among older adults living at home, believes Dr. Samir Sinha.
“You might actually see an odd situation where people start to really underestimate the risk to older people living in the community,” he said.