05-10-2020, 11:41 AM
(05-10-2020, 12:05 AM)jeffster Wrote: Because WR's Public Health Doctor was still declaring low risk, there wasn't much thought to workers, in particular, PSW's that works in this LTC's,. etc. So 'best practices' were ignored (due to lack of science).
I have a few issues with this. First, each region as its own challenges (for example, Waterloo Region has much more travel and more exposure to Toronto commuters than Thunder Bay does) and its own constraints, whether staffing, labs or supplies. We don't know the details on those so I am loth to lay blame at this point.
Second, the region has no control or responsibility for LTC facilities, these are managed by the province through the LHIN network.
And "best practices" were not yet generally agreed upon in early March. Yes, it turns out that Thunder Bay's choices were good and produced good results, but that was not yet known at that time. Otherwise you can be sure that many, many more regions, cities, provinces, states and countries would have done the same thing.