If users of CHSLDs and private seniors’ residences were the main victims of COVID during the first wave, they now seem better protected, thanks to vaccination.
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It is rather the elderly who live in their homes who are most affected by the virus and who die mainly according to the latest figures from the INSPQ.
Of the 318 deaths recorded last week (January 9), 73.6% of them concerned elderly people at home, often aged 80 and over.
“We also have younger and immunosuppressed people. People who are on immunosuppressive therapy are often at very high risk, as well as those who are not vaccinated, ”explains pharmacist Diane Lamarre to Mario Dumont.
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These people who often go to receive help at home can be easily infected by people coming from outside to give them support.
The professor at the University of Montreal specifies that two doses of vaccine are not enough to fight against Omicron.
“Against Omicron, it takes the third dose, and that we have a delay, we have a delay compared to this third dose. Barely 66% of people aged 60 and over have had their third dose while they are still very vulnerable,” she observes.
***See his full column in the video above.***
INSPQ data
Week of January 9 – 318 deaths
Intermediate resources: 9 deaths (28%)
Home and unknown: 234 deaths (73.6%)
Private residences for seniors: 35 deaths (11%)
CHSLD: 40 deaths (12.6%)
Listen to the interview with Dr. Germain Poirier, Chief of the Intensive Care Department at Charles-Le Moyne Hospital:
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