@NoLore is doing the work of compiling these stats in Canada. Check out her posts for more details.
I have not seen this stat anywhere else: In Canada, 85 per cent of deaths to COVID have been in old age homes.https://twitter.com/CPHO_Canada/status/1269345748472287233 …
6/7 But seniors in long-term care & assisted living have been most severely impacted. > 900 separate outbreaks in these settings account for ~20% of all #COVID19 cases but a heartbreaking 85% of all deaths in 
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Yeah, it's actually dipping below this number slightly. If so much media hadn't actively ignored my work, maybe more people would have seen it. See my pinned tweet.
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p.7 "Cases [of 981 clusters] among residents of long-term care and seniors’ homes represent 18% of cases and 82% of deaths country-wide." TT's a bit lax rounding percentages, but that seems to be the gist..
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#Ageism. Long Term Care Homes were very bad; COVID demonstrated how bad. 85% of all deaths! Why more? 1 Higher % of citizens in LTCH. 2 Terrible mgt; workers at diff homes, carrying infection. 3 Bad supervision. 4 Public ones bad; private, terrible. 5 Disregard old-olderThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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