How Ontario’s plan to stop Nursing home staff from spreading COVID-19 falls short of B.C’s

By Jessica Smith Cross

"Right now as more and more homes go into outbreak every single day, my only concerns is, will homes have the bandwidth and the capacity to make the arrangements they need so we can effectively limit the introduction and spread of COVID-19," said Sinha. "My only concern is that maybe a week from now, we truly haven't been able to limit staff movement between homes, which would remain then a vulnerability for COVID-19 to be spread between homes and get into homes as well."

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Ford vows to overhaul long-term care after the pandemic to fix the ‘cracks and holes’ in the system

By Jessica Smith Cross and Sneh Duggal

Dr. Samir Sinha said that both long-term care homes and retirement homes have systemic vulnerabilities to infections that include housing older, frailer populations in close quarters. The staffing issue that the government is seeking to curb with an emergency order — staff moving between multiple homes, and potentially bringing infections with them — was a vulnerability before the pandemic, and will remain one afterwards.

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