VANCOUVER Internal documents and a freedom of information battle reveal details of the provincial government’s quiet changes to outbreak response in B.C. care homes, which are being criticized as slow, confusing and inadequate. Implemented last fall, new criteria redefining outbreaks did not alter the province’s testing strategy in care homes. Under the new guidelines, in many cases a positive COVID-19 test for a single staff member was met with little more than meetings and a secrecy clause. CTV News Vancouver has obtained documents from Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health discussing “enhanced monitoring” and “enhanced surveillance” procedures, which avoided a formal outbreak declaration in the event of a single staff member being diagnosed with the coronavirus.
Documents obtained by CTV News show taxpayers footed the bill for more than $100,000 in personal living expenses for an ousted B.C. health-care executive.
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On Friday morning, British Columbians began learning how, when and where they would be vaccinated against a virus that upended their lives and led to the isolation and deaths of seniors in their communities.