December 24, 2020 – Hamilton Spectator
Shalom Village outbreak ‘a disaster,’ says Toronto doctor
By: Maria Iqbal
Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the NIA, says he raised alarms at the beginning of the outbreak to Larry Levin, the Hamilton long-term-care home’s interim CEO, that if the home didn’t improve staffing levels early, there would be “a lot of death.” “One in three to one in every five residents who get infected will go on to die,” said Stall, a member of the modelling team for Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table who has focused on long-term-care homes during the pandemic. “The number of dead residents at the end of this is going to be absolutely catastrophic.”