by: special to national post
ontario is seeing a great number of young canadians dying at home with covid-19, with an average of two people a day.
over the past two weeks there has been 25 deaths of people who have died at home, 16 were under the age of 60.
“this is a significant number that we’ve been involved with, compared to earlier in the pandemic,” said. dr. dirk huyer, ontario’s chief coroner and coordinator of the province’s outbreak response team.
“this is a difference in what we’ve seen from a risk factor,” he added.
in a press conference on april 22, dr. huyer said that more people have died at home before being able to seek medical care for covid-19 during the third wave.
“these people have not been able to obtain health care because the disease affected them so quickly and so seriously, leading to deaths in the community, which we did not see in the office of the chief coroner in the first wave,” he said.
people who have died at home ranged in age from in their 30s to in their 80s.
according to dr. huyer, age has become the most significant predictor for covid-19 cases and, “this is a younger group than we’ve seen before.”
during the first waves of the pandemic, those over the age of 60 and long-term-care homes were hit the hardest and were most at risk.