{"id":15470,"date":"2020-12-08T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=15470"},"modified":"2020-12-14T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:23:46","slug":"gta-seniors-homes-ravaged-by-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/gta-seniors-homes-ravaged-by-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA seniors homes ravaged by COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"

(December 7, 2020)<\/p>\n

By: Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun<\/p>\n\"\"<\/picture>\n

Crosses erected outside Camilla Care Community long-term care home representing the residents who have died from COVID-19, during a hunger strike by Innis Ingram May 28, 2020.<\/span>\u00a0PHOTO BY JACK BOLAND<\/span>\u00a0\/Toronto Sun<\/span><\/p>\n

Seniors homes continue to be hard hit during COVID\u2019s second wave with cases that are spreading at an \u201calarming rate,\u201d says a health care advocate.<\/p>\n

Natalie Mehra, executive director\u00a0 of the Ontario Health Coalition said this weekend that there are 117 active outbreaks in long-term care homes, 45 of them involving more than 10 residents and 10 with more than 99 residents and staff infected.<\/p>\n

In fact, provincial statistics continue to indicate that 25% of all deaths due to COVID are those over 80 years of age. To date, they represent 2,618 of all deaths from COVID.<\/p>\n

Some of the hardest hit LTC\/retirement homes in the GTA include:<\/p>\n

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