Thread by @NoLore

Of the 31,464 people who have died from COVID-19 in Canada, I've linked 18,984 deaths to 1916 residential facilities and 208 workplace deaths.

That is up 19 deaths and 6 new facilities since yesterday.

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Two things are notable about these numbers: 1. the overall number of deaths was a massive increase from what we've seen in a year. The bulk of that is Quebec's reporting.

2. Very few deaths then as a percentage of residential care to report. ..

Part of that is fake: the official lines are not reported on weekends, so we sill see a bump on Monday. But part is also just how this wave is playing out: there are fewer deaths in residential care.

You can see this with the overall percentage of deaths in residential care ...

The percentage has been slowly dropping since vaccines hit the scene, but it's been slow. I think that this percentage has been in the 60s since probably August 2020. But since the Omicron wave started resulting in deaths, this percentage started dropping faster ...

It's now at 60.3% and I suspect it will dip into the 50s soon enough (as in -- even with the added information next week, it won't catch up to maintain the ratio that it's been at for most of this pandemic).

It's a clear indication that people who live on their own, especially disabled, especially older, are not being protected (at all? enough?) by any government in Canada.

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