Canada’s nursing home crisis: 81 percent of coronavirus deaths are in long-term care facilities
By Moira Welsh
Dr. Samir Sinha recounts the doctor-patient telephone call when the woman told him of her secret exercises, weeks into lockdown in a home with no cases of COVID-19. “She said, ‘None of us are allowed to leave our rooms right now,’” recalls Sinha, director of geriatrics for Sinai Health System. The patient explained her routine and, says Sinha, asked, “‘You are OK with that, right?’ “And I said abso-fricking-lutely. I don’t see why you can’t do these things — with appropriate physical distancing,” Sinha says.
“That was her little act of defiance.” Sinha is says if the woman lived in a home with a COVID outbreak, his advice would be different.