Covid-19: “Quebec was not ready”

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Gisèle Lévesque, the first Canadian to receive a dose of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine, in Quebec City, December 14, 2020. (Illustration image) © Pat Lachance/Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services via REUTERS

By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |

Mikael Ponge Follow

2 mins

This is the statement of failure drawn up by the Commissioner for Health and Well-being in an investigation report, published on Wednesday January 19, 2022, devoted to the excess mortality of the elderly during the first wave of Covid, in the spring. 2020. Of the 5,700 elderly victims of the pandemic during this period, 90% lived in care centers.

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Joanne Castonguay, the Commissioner of Health and Well-being does not mince words:

to face such a pandemic. Up-to-date plans to deal with such an illness were lacking, as well as infection prevention and control measures. But above all the government was slow to react to the carnage of the elderly housed in care centres. She points to the lack of an effective monitoring system which could have demonstrated early on at the start of the health crisis that the elderly were overrepresented in the number of cases of infections. Many of them died, often through negligence, in the greatest destitution, as confirmed by the testimonies collected by

.

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It is in particular a logistical support that he provided to the commando, reminds us

of the Nouvelliste.

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An investigation is underway.

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