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GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, OTTAWA Prime Minister Trudeau echoed yesterday what many people have been thinking: Canadian care homes are being neglected. "I think one of the things we've seen over the past number of weeks is a far more severe impact on a number of seniors' residences and long-term care centres than we had certainly hoped for, or more than we feared," Trudeau said. Journalist Noa Loreto has been keeping an up-to-date spreadsheet of all care home deaths. Of the 1195 COVID-19 related deaths, she says 682 deaths – more than half – are attributed to various care facilities. Her data is here. We talked about Ottawans loving loopholes yesterday. It came out today that the bar on health care workers from working in multiple care homes does not apply to temp workers. The quality of life for those living and working in care homes has been low on the list of provincial priorities for years. It’s now a matter of life and death. We’ll see you Monday — Martha and Darren
STATS Weather: Chance of flurries or rain showers with a high of 6° |
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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE There have been 678 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa and 14 deaths. +Related It appears no ride share drivers have become infected [Ottawa Citizen] Federal Government funding University of Alberta research in collaboraton with Wuhan Virus Lab [Globe & Mail] + Related Conspiracy theorists think COVID-19 came from that Wuhan Virus Lab [National Post] |
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IN OTHER NEWS Business getting higher Gatineau cops turn back woman taking dog to vet
THINGS TO DO ? The Mayfair Theatre (Ottawa's cinema) has a new podcast out today. Eric and Josh chat about: pandemic talk shows, having a new cat, nice social media, Ewoks TV movies, that it’s ok for friends to like different things, old people complaining about new stuff, getting tagged in negative tweets, stay at home geek groups, That Thing You Do, and more! [Mayfair] ?2pm Listen to New York Times reporter Mike Isaac about all things Uber, and what it was like to spend so many months enmeshed in the exploits of Travis Kalanick. [Quarantine Book Club]
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