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As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
As few as 40 per cent of people working with some of the province s most vulnerable people residents of personal care homes are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Care home administrators and the organization that represents many such facilities in the province are trying to persuade Manitoba s vaccine task force to let the same nurses looking after residents give shots to fellow staff members.
Jan Legeros, executive director of the Long Term & Continuing Care Association of Manitoba, said the group is hearing from member facilities that between 40 to 45 per cent of care home staff have been vaccinated.
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Like a sneak thief in the night, COVID-19 stole into The Convalescent Home of Winnipeg undetected.
No one knows how, exactly, the virus got into the Hugo Street personal-care home; none of the 84 residents or any staff members were showing any symptoms when the first positive case came back on Dec. 6.
But the virus made its presence known with force. Little more than a month later, the numbers tell a frightening tale.
Eighteen of the 84 residents died, the latest a woman in her 60s reported Thursday. Sixty-three residents contracted the virus and have recovered. Three others have somehow managed not to get sick.