COVID-19 outbreak, a 97-year-old Second World War veteran living there is going public to thank front-line workers for their efforts, and to criticize management for missteps.“You don’t win a war with softness, and we are in a war,” said Wolf Solkin, who knows what a war looks like.
He fought for Canada in Europe during the Second World War.At Ste. Anne’s Hospital these days, however, the enemy is COVID-19.“There is a severe outbreak of COVID-19 among the patients and the staff, and they can’t seem to get control of it,” Solkin said.On Nov.
30, Global News reported that 14 patients had COVID-19 at Ste. Anne’s, many of them veterans. As of Wednesday, the government counted nine cases among patients there, 11 among staff, and two deaths.