Coronavirus Lays Bare Poor Conditions in Canada’s Nursing Homes
By: Paul Vieira
“This is a huge black eye” for Canada, said Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research and co-chairman of Ryerson University’s National Institute on Ageing. He said policy makers’ inaction to address nursing-home shortcomings—most notably funding for staff—“helped sow the seeds of the tragedy we have been witnessing.”