TMR CHSLD: every single resident got sick
There’s a CHSLD in the Town of Mount Royal where every one of the 226 residents caught the virus. At least 70 are dead. It’s being blamed on a defective ventilation system, but on looking it up, I find the home is located right beside the Met where autoroute 15 t-bones in. Air pollution may be a factor in making the virus deadlier.
And now the staff are getting sick too.
Aaron Derfel has a piece Thursday comparing the CHSLD debacle with the cruise ship crisis that was most of the world’s introduction to COVID-19.
Numbers suggest that community transmission is up, and with the weather expected to get warmer and nicer during and after the long weekend, this verges on being ominous.
dwgs 12:10 on 2020-05-14 Permalink
My mother in law was in that CHSLD for a couple of months about 15 years ago and we moved heaven and earth to get her transferred, it was hole then, I wouldn’t want to imagine what it was like with the Covid ravaging it.
Douglas 16:05 on 2020-05-14 Permalink
Ventilation system blame is full of crap. The system worked the way it was supposed to, distribute air all over the building in every room. The owners most likely didn’t bother to install any kind of stop gap that would reduce or prevent transmission from room to room.
If the ventilation system doesn’t work, the virus doesn’t go from room to room to room through the air ducts.
It was most likely an old ventilation system that was uniform throughout the entire building. So the air is circulating all over the place without dampers.
JP 23:15 on 2020-05-14 Permalink
The lack of neglect is astounding, and the various levels of leadership will all try to squirm their way out of any professional/personal responsibility.
david1999 01:36 on 2020-05-15 Permalink
That article is reporting a 31-45% fatality rate range of infected, on an infection rate of 100%, which I don’t think we’ve seen reported anywhere else.
I don’t know if someone needs to be jailed over that, but it’s pretty clear that when the dust settles, there must be serious changes province-wide.
It makes no sense – none – to nuke the economy by keeping everyone inside, when the vulnerable people, those who can actually see death rates not just above 1% or even 5% but 30%+ . . . when we nuke the economy but don’t/won’t/can’t even protect the people who were the very reason we nuked the economy. Like, there just needs to be a big change.
Kate 12:42 on 2020-05-15 Permalink
Douglas, what did you actually know about it? An expert sent to inspect the place says the ventilation system had stopped so that the level of viruses in the air kept going up.