COVID-19 pandemic.Coroner Géhane Kamel says the provincial government, the local health authority and the owners of the Herron care home “passed the ball around” while residents were left to die.She spoke to reporters Thursday for the first time since releasing her report earlier this week on her investigation into 53 deaths at several long-term care homes — including Herron — during the pandemic’s first wave.
Quebec Health Department chose to ignore COVID-19 risk in long-term care Kamel says her mandate wasn’t to blame specific people but to make recommendations so that a similar situation doesn’t reoccur.Her report says residents of Quebec long-term care homes were kept in a blind spot while the provincial government reacted to the oncoming wave of the novel coronavirus in the spring of 2020.