Selley: Shameful nursing home report shows how Canada's lockdown strategy went wrong
By Chris Selley
Second of all, we know where the greatest risk lives: not just among the elderly — 96 per cent of fatalities were over 60, according to the latest federal reporting — but very specifically in long-term care homes. Ryerson University’s National Institute on Ageing estimates 81 per cent of deaths nationwide and in Ontario, 82 per cent in Quebec and 95 per cent in Nova Scotia, which has the third-highest fatality rate among provinces, are linked to such environments.