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Check out the data. Just despicable. Canada is finally leading the world in something. 81% Of all of our Wuhan Virus victims are from nursing homes.
Socialist nations always target the weakest. Be it the young and poor, or the elderly and dependent. Sick puppies allow abuses to happen. Many in our society profit from these abuses.
81% of COVID-19 deaths in Canada were in long-term care – nearly double OECD average
Canada has done a far worse job of protecting nursing-home residents from the coronavirus than other wealthy countries, according to a new analysis that shows the places that fared best made sweeping changes at seniors’ facilities as soon as they shut their societies down.
Just over 80 per cent of Canada’s known COVID-19 deaths were in residents of nursing or retirement homes as of May 25, nearly double the average for countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, says a new report from Canada’s health care statistics agency.
Spain was next, with 66 per cent of its total COVID-19 deaths in residents of seniors’ facilities, followed by Norway and Israel at 58 per cent and Ireland at 56 per cent. Some of the countries examined in the report, including Slovenia, Hungary and the Netherlands, had fewer than 20 per cent of their COVID-19 deaths in such homes.
The new report, published Thursday, highlights some of the ways that Canada’s long-term care sector was set up to fail before the pandemic, with fewer nurses and personal-support workers, older residents and less coherent regulation than in some other countries.
Socialist nations always target the weakest. Be it the young and poor, or the elderly and dependent. Sick puppies allow abuses to happen. Many in our society profit from these abuses.
81% of COVID-19 deaths in Canada were in long-term care – nearly double OECD average
Country | Percent |
Canada | 81 |
Spain | 66 |
Israel | 58 |
Norway | 58 |
Ireland | 56 |
Belgium | 50 |
France | 48 |
OECD average | 42 |
Germany | 34 |
Italy | 32 |
U.S. | 31 |
Australia | 28 |
Britain | 27 |
Portugal | 25 |
Austria | 19 |
Netherlands | 15 |
Slovenia | 9 |
Hungary | 7 |
Canada has done a far worse job of protecting nursing-home residents from the coronavirus than other wealthy countries, according to a new analysis that shows the places that fared best made sweeping changes at seniors’ facilities as soon as they shut their societies down.
Just over 80 per cent of Canada’s known COVID-19 deaths were in residents of nursing or retirement homes as of May 25, nearly double the average for countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, says a new report from Canada’s health care statistics agency.
Spain was next, with 66 per cent of its total COVID-19 deaths in residents of seniors’ facilities, followed by Norway and Israel at 58 per cent and Ireland at 56 per cent. Some of the countries examined in the report, including Slovenia, Hungary and the Netherlands, had fewer than 20 per cent of their COVID-19 deaths in such homes.
The new report, published Thursday, highlights some of the ways that Canada’s long-term care sector was set up to fail before the pandemic, with fewer nurses and personal-support workers, older residents and less coherent regulation than in some other countries.
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