December 31, 2020 – The Wall Street Journal

Covid-19 Stalked Nursing Homes Around the World

By: Anna Wilde Matthews

“We left the barn door open,” said Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research and co-chair at the National Institute on Ageing, a think tank at Toronto’s Ryerson University which attributes more than 70% of Canada’s approximately 14,000 known Covid-19 deaths to long-term care homes. “It was a tragedy,” he added.