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.

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Six-week wait for wage subsidy may be too long for some businesses and their employees caught in coronavirus crisis

By Barbara Shecter

NIA co-Chair, Mitch Frazer, on Government response to COVID-19 economic turmoil. “This is an unprecedented economic event,” Frazer said. “Noting that 44 per cent of Canadians reported two weeks ago that they had at least one family member out of work.”

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Limit the number of nursing and retirement homes staff can work in, RNAO urges

By Shawn Jeffords

NIA Director of Health Policy Research, “Dr. Samir Sinha, said staff who work across multiple homes become “vectors of transmission” into different homes. Systemic vulnerabilities have always made the long-term care sector vulnerable, but particularly vulnerable during a pandemic.”

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