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until this week, testing of long-term care residents for covid-19 was strictly limited. a measure of how we seem to regard the elderly is that only now has ontario’s chief medical officer, dr. david williams, decided that anyone moving into long-term care should be tested, since the illness engulfs these settings so easily. consider, as well, that the same provincial official took until thursday to direct long-term care staff to wear masks inside the facilities (many workers, fortunately, didn’t wait for his edict). until now, apparently, face coverings were not necessary when dealing with the very frailest of our fellow citizens.
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