October 27, 2020 - The Globe and Mail
Grim milestone: Canada marks 10,000 COVID-19 deaths as country battles second wave
By: Kelly Grant
That 80 per cent figure cuts two ways: It shows that Canada failed to protect residents of long-term care in the first wave, but succeeded in minimizing deaths among everyone else.
A paper by the Toronto geriatricians and researchers Nathan Stall and Samir Sinha neatly captures this dichotomy. Their study looked at deaths among residents of long-term care in a dozen OECD countries, some of which rode out the first wave well (Germany, Denmark) and some of which didn’t (Spain, Italy.)