19-year-old dies of COVID-19

A 19-year-old Montrealer has died of Covid, as cases rise across Canada in people under 30. Update: The identity of the young man who died has been released.

Quebec has taken a hard line that only the very sickest kids can be excused going to school in person this fall. (Quebec has also abandoned a program offering school meals in some of the poorer neighbourhoods.)

Ten percent of the trainees in the three-month program Quebec launched to quickly train a lot of patient attendants for CHSLDs have quit the program, but I don’t think that’s shocking. Better they wash out of the program when they foresee that kind of work isn’t for them, than take a job and walk away from it.

La Presse says that notaries have been swamped, with people keen to write or amend their wills, people buying and selling houses, and disgruntled couples doing paperwork for divorce.

La Presse also finds that, if a proven vaccine were offered, only 40% of us would go get it right away, and a hard core of 15% would never get it.