How Ontario could have avoided the long-term care crisis

Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 5:10 a.m.

b'Last spring, Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised to move "heaven and earth" to prevent more long-term care residents from dying of COVID-19. But today, more than one-third of the province\'s long-term care homes are in an outbreak. More than 960 residents have died since the start of October. \\nAnd experts say it didn\'t have to be this way.\\nToday, we\'re speaking to Dr. Samir Sinha \\u2014 the director of geriatrics at the Sinai Health System and the University Health Network, and the director of health policy research at the National Institute on Ageing \\u2014 about what Ontario could have done, but didn\'t.'