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Lines: COVID-19, the Charter, and Long-term Care
readiness efforts on maximizing the capacity of hospitals to treat those
who fell critically ill.5 In pursuit of that objective, non-emergency sur-
geries (including for cancer, cardiac, and other serious illnesses) were
cancelled, and diagnostic testing, clinical trials, palliative care, medi-
cally assisted death, and other hospital services were suspended.6 The
resulting costs to life and health are only now being calculated.7
Beyond hospitals, the pandemic also deepened pre-existing
access problems within the broader health care system. As other
chapters in this book document, long-standing inequalities in
health services for Indigenous people on reserves and in rural and
remote areas were amplified,8 as were barriers to prison health,9
5. Kelly Grant & Thu Thanh Ha, “How Shoring up Hospitals for COVID-19
Contributed to Canada’s Long-term Care Crisis”, Globe and Mail (20 May 2020),
online: <www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-how-shoring-up-hospitals-
for-covid-19-contributed-to-canadas-long/>; Karen Howlett, “With an Early
Focus on Seniors’ Residences, Kingston Has So Far Avoided the Brunt of COVID-
19”, GlobeÂ
andÂ
Mail (28 April 2020), online: <www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/
article-with-an-early-focus-on-seniors-residences-kingston-has-so-far/>.
6. Avis Favaro, Elizabeth St Phillips & Ben Cousins, “Canadian Hospitals Take
Drastic Measures Amid COVID-19 Crisis”, CTV News (16 March 2020), online:
<www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-hospitals-take-drastic-mea-
sures-amid-covid-19-crisis-1.4855849>; Financial Accountability Office of
Ontario, Ontario Health Sector: A Preliminary Review of the Impact of the COVID-19Â
Outbreak on Hospital Capacity (Toronto: Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2020) at 9;
Charlie Pinkerton, “Ontario Inches Closer to Allowing More Doctor Support at
Long-term Care Homes”, iPolitics (6 May 2020), online: <ipolitics.ca/2020/05/06/
ontario-inches-closer-to-allowing-more-doctor-support-at-long-term-care-
homes/>; Tom Blackwell, “In Scramble over COVID, the Patients We Forgot”,
Ottawa Citizen (9 May 2020) NP1, 3.
7. Financial Accountability Office of Ontario, supra note 6; Blackwell, supra note 6;
Sandie Rinaldo & Jonathan Forani “Provinces Begin to Address Backlog of
Surgeries in Wake of COVID-19”, CTV News (9 May 2020), online: <www.
ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/provinces-begin-to-address-backlog-of-surger-
ies-in-wake-of-covid-19-1.4932424>.
8. See Anne Levesque & Sophie Thériault, this volume, Chapter D-6; Aimée Craft,
Deborah McGregor & Jeffery Hewitt, this volume, Chapter A-2; “Assembly
of First Nations Declares State of Emergency on COVID-19 Pandemic”
(24 March 2020), online: Assembly of First Nations <www.afn.ca/assembly-of-first-
nations-declares-state-of-emergency-on-covid-19-pandemic/>; Teresa Wright,
“First Nations Health Authorities Tell Commons Committee They Need More
PPE” (24 May 2020), online: Times Colonist <www.timescolonist.com/first-nations-
health-authorities-tell-commons-committee-they-need-more-ppe-1.24140363>.
9. “COVID-19 Status Update” (23 April 2020), online (pdf): Office of the CorrectionalÂ
Investigator <www.oci-bec.gc.ca/cnt/rpt/pdf/oth-aut/oth-aut20200423-eng.pdf>;
“COVID-19 et prisons provinciales – Les données doivent être rendues publiques”
(22 April 2020), online: LigueÂ
desÂ
droitsÂ
etÂ
libertés <liguedesdroits.ca/prison-covid19-
transparence/>; Adelina Iftene, this volume, Chapter D-5.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International