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Why nursing homes in Quebec crumbled under COVID-19′s first wave

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Long Term Care - Is Covet 19 a Big Issue?

More than four thousand people died at these homes, but not all them were from covet right? Some of them died from things like starvation, dehydration. Andlimea the line that they didn't die directly from covet and m very careful because i've seen some people seized on this fact as proof that covet 19 was not a big issue. The mandate of a coroner is to come up with recommendations to ma sure that these tragedies don't happen again. So the coroner will not find criminal or civil responsibility, but there will be some recommendations as to how governments could try to do things in a different way to prevent this from happening again.

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