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With the London-area running more COVID-19 deaths this month than in the entire first wave of the pandemic, most of them in long-term care, health officials are looking into whether a more contagious mutation of the virus could be the culprit in the hardest-hit care homes.
The Middlesex-London Health Unit has requested variant testing on swabs from some homes dealing with massive deadly outbreaks, medical officer of health Chris Mackie said Thursday.
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Author of the article: Kathleen Saylors • Woodstock Sentinel-Review
Publishing date: Jan 06, 2021 • January 6, 2021 • 4 minute read • Veronica Thurston speaks to her grandmother Elizabeth Wall on the telephone while they look at each other through a window at Maple Manor Long Term Care in Tillsonburg, Ont. on Tuesday January 5, 2021. Wall is one of the 55 residents that has contracted COVID-19 during an outbreak at the home. Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press/Postmedia Network
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The grim numbers 90 people infected and four dead at one home alone tell the story.
But so does tone, and the top public health doctor for one Southwestern Ontario region struck a weary note Tuesday amid yet another deadly COVID-19 flare-up in long-term care, this one in Tillsonburg, and one of many across the region and the province.