Winnipeg Free Press
Witnesses to horror
Grieving, angry relatives determined to effect changes to protect province s seniors after nightmare at Maples Long Term Care Home
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A resident is removed from Maples Long Term Care Home by paramedics in November 2020. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Reporter: Jay
Eddie Calisto-Tavares took matters into her own hands so she could hold her father’s at the end of his life.
Winnipeg Free Press
Eddie Calisto-Tavares took matters into her own hands so she could hold her father’s at the end of his life.
As a horrifying COVID-19 outbreak raged inside Maples Long Term Care Home last fall, she donned full-body personal protective equipment and became his designated caregiver.
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It was before the loss began.
Before patient zero turned up in Manitoba, before the first of us died, before the virus ripped through our community, before the homes of our elderly were stricken with sickness, before the hospitals were overrun, before the doctors and nurses revolted, before the economy shut down, before the daily death toll became nightly news.
Before all that, there was a hockey game.
A Monday in Winnipeg. The temperature drops below zero but the sun is out in full force. A normal weekday afternoon fades into a normal weekday evening. As rush-hour traffic streams through downtown, 15,325 people file into Bell MTS Place for a 6 p.m. puck drop.
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