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EPISODE · May 10, 2020 · 15 MIN

Dr. Samir Sinha & Lyndsey Forsythe Brochu

from Zoomer Week in Review · host Zoomer Podcast Network

This week we learned the devastating news that Canada has the highest proportion of COVID 19 deaths in long term care in the western world. And the National institute on Aging says official numbers do not reveal the full picture because they exclude retirement homes. According to their figures, a staggering 82% of this country's COVID-19 deaths occur in these care settings which house only 1% of the population. Libby Znaimer talked with Dr. Samir Sinha, one of Canada's leading geriatricians. AND The province has released a framework for resuming elective surgeries, but so far there is no timeline and it will be up to individual hospitals. Libby talked with Lyndsey Forsythe Brochu, a young woman waiting for a double lung transplant.

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Do government numbers tell the whole story on COVId-19 in long term care? And Waiting for a lung transplant in the age of COVID-19.

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