Calgary woman moves dad from long-term care home amid calls to stop the deaths
By Jennifer Lee
Long-term care expert, Dr. Samir Sinha has been monitoring how the pandemic has evolved across the country. "Alberta's not the province I worry about the most. But I'm still concerned given there's so many homes that have gone into outbreak there and there's still mounting deaths everyday," he said. "These are some of our most vulnerable Albertans and COVID — as it's been getting into these homes — [has] killed about 17 or 18 per cent of those folks who've gotten COVID. So it's been spreading through and with deadly consequences." According to Sinha more than 80 per cent of Canadian COVID-19 deaths have been in long-term care, so Alberta — at 73 per cent — falls below the national average.