INVESTIGATING 81 DEATHS AT SCARBOROUGH LTC

For months, health experts warned of a second, deadly wave of COVID-19 and that long-term care homes in Ontario were vulnerable. But, despite the warnings, more residents died in the second wave than the first – an unthinkable tragedy that was largely avoidable, health experts say.

A Toronto long-term care home where 81 residents died of COVID-19 turned down advice from health officials to use “baby monitors” and “room dividers” to help create up to 20 potentially life-saving rooms for sickened residents, according to emails from Toronto Public Health.


The emails provide new details on how Tendercare Living Centre — a long-term care home in Scarborough — failed to enact an emergency plan to use the building’s fourth floor to isolate infected residents.