8 July 2020: Not Just New York or the U.S.

Canada’s “national shame”: Covid-19 in nursing homes

This article on Canada's nursing home deaths attributed to COVID-19 describes the conditions within them that promoted the rapid spread of coronavirus infections, which are similar to those state officials in New York knew existed in nursing homes throughout the state before they began forcing them to admit patients known to have been infected after discharging them from hospitals to free up beds. Remarkably, the article also indicates Canada's nursing homes were the deadliest for the coronavirus in any country.