COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS) EASY ACCESS LIST: Major COVID-19 Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes, Media Releases, List of Assessment Centres & Additional Resources

Posted: July 21, 2021

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Covid-19:

1. 1. Reports & Analyses
   2. Backgrounders, Facts Sheets & Briefing Notes
   3. Media Releases
   4. List of Assessment Centres
   5. Additional Resources

Reports/Analyses

• REPORT: Public Money, Private Profit: The Ford Government & the Privatization of the Next Generation of Ontario’s Long-Term Care (November 29, 2021)
• REPORT: Long-Term Care Survey Report Released by Kawartha Lakes Health Coalition, Northumberland Health Coalition, and the Peterborough Health Coalition (June 22, 2021)
• REPORT: Investing in Care, Not Profit: Recommendations to Transform Long-Term Care in Ontario (May 20, 2021)
• RELEASE, SUMMARY & ANALYSIS: Ontario Health Coalition Summary & Analysis of Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission Final Report (May 5, 2021)
• REPORT: Briefing Report: Investigating Real Registered Nurse Staffing Levels in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes (April 7, 2021)
• REPORT: Ontario’s Reopening and the Third Wave: The Spread of COVID-19 in Workplaces & Schools – Data updated to March 13 (March 29, 2021)
• RELEASE, BRIEFING NOTE & LEGAL OPINION: Advocates Representing More Than 1 Million Canadians Call For National Standards to Improve Quality, Accountability and Take Profit Out of Long-Term Care (March 22, 2021)
• LETTER & EVENTS: Call for Human Rights Inquiry Into Systemic Discrimination Against the Elderly in Ontario Hospitals and Long-Term Care (March 16, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Large Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Summary & Report: Over Two Thousand Dead in Long-Term Care as We Approach End of Wave 2 – Data updated to March 3 (March 12, 2021)
• REPORT: The Spread of COVID-19 Pre- and Post- Winter Lockdown in Ontario Workplaces & Schools – Data updated to January 30 (February 22, 2021)
• RELEASE & REPORT: The Spread of COVID-19 Pre- and Post- Winter Lockdown in Ontario Workplaces & Schools (February 22, 2021)
• REPORT: Shocking Number of Long-Term Care Homes with Majority of Residents Infected – Data updated to January 19 (January 22, 2021)
• REPORT: Wave 2 Continues to Devastate Long-Term Care, Far Surpassing the 1st Wave – Data updated to January 19 (January 22, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Sharp escalation in large COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings – Data updated to January 8 (January 11, 2021)
• REPORT: COVID-19 Second Wave Survey of Staff in Long-Term Care Homes with Large Outbreaks (December 18, 2020)
• REPORT: A Call to Conscience: The COVID-19 Crisis in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes, What is Needed & the Government’s Response (December 17, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Non-Healthcare Settings – Data Updated to December 2 (December 15, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Sharp escalation in large COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings – Data updated to December 1 (December 3, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Updated Report on the Spread of COVID-19 in Workplaces (excluding Health Care) and Schools Shows Huge Growth in Schools, Construction, Retail/Restaurants/Entertainment and Public Services (November 30, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Non-Healthcare Settings – Data Updated to November 18 (November 30, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: COVID Numbers in Health Care Outbreaks Escalating Dramatically – Data Updated to November 17 (November 19, 2020)
• INTEGRITY COMPLAINT: Health Coalition Requests Integrity Commissioner Investigate Political Donations & High-Level Personnel Links Between For-Profit LTC Industry and Ford Government Prior to Passage of Legal Liability Bil (November 16, 2020)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Ontario Is Experiencing Exponential Growth of COVID-19 Cases In Long-Term Care – OHC’s Roundup of Most Recent Case Numbers (November 10, 2020)
• SUBMISSION: Submission to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy on Bill 218 (November 4, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to October 28 (November 3, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Non-Health Care Settings – Data Updated to October 28 (November 3, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Non-Health Care Settings – Data Updated to October 13 (October 26, 2020)
• RELEASE & ANALYSIS: Health Coalition Calls for Government to Flow Urgently Needed Money to Hospitals and Long-Term Care; Staffing Announcements Far Less Than Other Provinces (October 2, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Non-Healthcare Settings – Data Updated to September 22 (September 25, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Huge Jump in COVID-19 Cases in Schools and Child Care, Increase in Workplace Outbreaks: Health Coalition Releases Updated Tracking of the Virus Spread in Non-Health Care Industries (September 25, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Rate of Increase in COVID-19 among Staff, Residents, and Patients in Ontario’s Health Care Settings More Than Doubled: Coalition Fears Second Wave in Long-Term Care (September 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Ford Government Must Be Transparent About COVID-19 Outbreaks, Improve Public Access to Information: Health Coalition Releases Updated Reports on Outbreaks in Health & Non-Health Sectors (September 9, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Non-Healthcare Settings – Data Updated to August 29 (September 9, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Non-Health Care Industries – Data Updated to July 14 (July 23, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to July 13 (July 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: 95% of Ontario Long-Term Care Staff Report Staffing Shortages Leaving Basic Care Needs Unmet: Health Coalition Releases Staffing Survey Calling for Ford Government to Take Action (July 22, 2020)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BACKGROUNDER: “There are not enough staff for existing beds & why should more money go to profit? We need care, urgently.” Health Coalition Responds to Ford Government’s Announcement of Enriched Capital Funding for LTC Homes (July 16, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 Outbreaks Spreading outside of the Health Care Industry – Data Updated to June 29 (July 3, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to June 17 (June 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Most Recent Tracking Report Shows that Ministry of Long-Term Care & Public Health Ontario Have Discontinued Public Reporting of Vital COVID-19 Data, Outbreaks in Health Settings Down but Death Rate Continues to Rise (June 23, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to June 2 (June 5, 2020)
• REPORT: New Report on COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Settings – Data Updated to May 19 (June 2, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 outbreaks in health settings almost doubled, death toll up by 333.7% – Data updated to May 5 (May 12, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Staff & Patients Infected by COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Almost Doubled, Death Toll increased by 333.7 % in 2-weeks: Outbreaks are Not Under Control (May 12, 2020)
• RELEASE & ANALYSIS: COVID-19 Death Rates in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes Significantly Higher and Increasing in For-Profit Homes vs. Non-Profit and Publicly-Owned Homes: New Data Analysis (May 6, 2020)
• ANALYSIS & RESPONSE: New Directive and Guidelines for COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Homes Inadequate: Coalition Calls for Full Testing, Better Access to PPE, Respect for Human Rights in Care (April 9, 2020)
• ANALYSIS: Key Message & Quick Analysis of Ford Government Economic Statement Just Released (March 25, 2020)

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Privatization of COVID-19 Testing in Ontario (March 30, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: Why Stop the Privatization of Long-Term Care (March 8, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Demands Answers from Ford Government on Long-Term Care & Hospital Crisis (January 13, 2022)
• BRIEFING NOTE: The Horrifying Truth About For-Profit Long-Term Care Homes (December 1, 2021)
• LEGAL OPINION: Proposal from Southbridge Care Homes Inc. re Orchard Villa in Pickering, Ontario (September 1, 2021)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: A Critically Important Warning in New Financial Accountability Office Report: Ford Government’s Long-Term Care Plan is a House of Cards (May 27, 2021)
• RELEASE, SUMMARY & ANALYSIS: Ontario Health Coalition Summary & Analysis of Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission Final Report (May 5, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (March 24, 2021)
• RELEASE, BRIEFING NOTE & LEGAL OPINION: Advocates Representing More Than 1 Million Canadians Call For National Standards to Improve Quality, Accountability and Take Profit Out of Long-Term Care (March 22, 2021)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Health Coalition Demands that Ford Government Stop Privatizing Health Care Under Cover of COVID-19: “There is no excuse not to use reopen & ramp up existing capacity in public system”, Coalition will do everything in its power to stop the undermining of public health care (September 24, 2020)
• FACT SHEET: Fact Sheet on Revera Inc. For-Profit Long-Term Care & Retirement Home Chain Owner (September 16, 2020)
• BRIEFING NOTE: COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Litigation & Legal Actions (September 16, 2020)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Fact Check & Briefing Note on Inspections in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes (May 29, 2020)

Media Releases

• RELEASE: New report on the spread of COVID, LTC outbreaks, hospitalizations & deaths raises red flags despite the Ford government’s suppression of COVID Data (October 21, 2022)
• RELEASE: Health & legal experts call for reinstatement of masking protections as Omicron – one of the most infectious viruses known – tears through Ontario population (May 2, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Privatization of COVID-19 Testing in Ontario (March 30, 2022)
• RELEASE: Our governments cannot negotiate away public health measures: Flooding of 911 lines, blocking of ambulances & other reckless endangerment of public health must result in consequences, safety must be restored (February 10, 2022)
• RELEASE: Health Care System Besieged by COVID-19: Health Coalition demands Ford answer for lack of action (January 20, 2022)
• RELEASE: Emergency Measures Needed to Address the Health Care Staffing Crisis (January 14, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Demands Answers from Ford Government on Long-Term Care & Hospital Crisis (January 13, 2022)
• RELEASE: Ford Government is Awarding Thousands of Long-Term Care Beds to For-Profit Chains with Ghastly Records of Death and Suffering: New Coalition Report (November 29, 2021)
• RELEASE: Coalition Responds to Long-Term Care Minister Rod Phillips’ Announcement Cutting Through the PR: No Commitment to Reinstate Annual Comprehensive Inspections (October 26, 2021)
• RELEASE: “Unreasonable and Contrary to Law”: Legal Opinion on New 30-Year License & Expansion at For-Profit LTC Orchard Villa Coalition & Families Call on Ford Government to Respond (September 1, 2021)
• RELEASE: Provincial Health Coalitions Put Federal Parties on Notice: Canadians Demand Real Action to Fix Long-Term Care (August 19, 2021)
• EVENT: Large Crowd Expected to Protest Doug Ford’s Plans to Reward Orchard Villa Long-Term Care Home with Horrific Record a New 30-Year License & Expansion (July 13, 2021)
• EVENT: MAKE REVERA PUBLIC – Building Our Momentum (June 17, 2021)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: A Critically Important Warning in New Financial Accountability Office Report: Ford Government’s Long-Term Care Plan is a House of Cards (May 27, 2021)
• RELEASE: ‘Total Disrespect’: LTC Residents, Families & Staff Incensed that Premier Ford Dodged Question Period Today While Hundreds Waited for Commitments to Improve Care (May 18, 2021)
• EVENT: Pack the Public Galleries of the Ontario Legislature (May 11, 2021)
• RELEASE: “We are outraged”: Health Coalition slams Ford government’s response to Auditor General on LTC, No responsibility taken for the among the worst death rates in the world (April 29, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Auditor General Report on COVID-19 in Ontario’s LTC Homes Supports Longstanding Calls for Real Change (April 28, 2021)
• RELEASE: OHC Raises Alarm About Ford Government’s New Emergency Order Transferring Hospital ALC Patients Without Consent into LTC and Retirement Homes (April 28, 2021)
• EVENT: Demand Our Federal and Provincial Governments Set National Standards to Improve Long-Term Care (April 22, 2021)
• RELEASE: Record Case Numbers, COVID-19 Third Wave Emergency: Ontarians Need Clearer Message, Stronger Protections- Coalition (April 12, 2021)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition’s New Report Tracks Alarming Spread of COVID-19 in Ontario’s Third Wave: Hardest Hit Industries (March 30, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (March 24, 2021)
• RELEASE, BRIEFING NOTE & LEGAL OPINION: Advocates Representing More Than 1 Million Canadians Call For National Standards to Improve Quality, Accountability and Take Profit Out of Long-Term Care (March 22, 2021)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Almost 4,000 Dead in Long-Term Care as We Approach End of Wave 2: Wave 2 Deaths Exceed Wave I (March 12, 2021)
• RELEASE: OHC Responds to Ford Government’s PSW Announcement with Incredulity: 373 PSWs for Long-Term Care Nowhere Near What is Needed (February 22, 2021)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Health Care Outbreaks are Still Fatally High: Long-Term Care Deaths Surpass Wave I & COVID-19 Infections 50% More than Wave I (February 17, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition Releases Tracking of UK Variant COVID-19 As COVID-19 U.K. Variant Spreads Ford Government Can Not Fail Us Again: Stronger Enforced Public Health Measures Are Missing (February 10, 2021)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Calls on Ford Government to Stop For-Profit Long-Term Care Chain Companies from Banning Essential Caregivers: COVID-19 (February 8, 2021)
• EVENT: PROTEST: Ontario’s Long-Term Care Crisis (January 25, 2021)
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions call for Federal Leadership to Defend Public Health Care (January 25, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Long-Term Care COVID-19 Crisis: 100 Organizations Send Clear Message to Premier Ford, This is an Emergency, We Need Action Now (January 22, 2021)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Threaten to Topple Devastating Records Set in the First Wave (January 11, 2021)
• RELEASE: Emergency: COVID-19 Crisis Situation In Ontario Requires Stronger Measures AND Stronger Supports for People Impacted, Today is Deadliest Day of Pandemic So Far (January 7, 2021)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Disappointed with Ford Government’s Staffing Report Announcement: No Recruitment Drive Announced, Timelines for Staffing Improvements Mean Slight Improvements Year After Next (December 17, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: A Call to Conscience: New Report on the COVID-19 Crisis in Long-Term Care in Wave 2 Reveals Huge Gaps in Ford Government’s Response (December 17, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Updated Report on the Spread of COVID-19 in Non-Health Care Workplaces Shows Huge Growth in Manufacturing, Schools, Construction and Retail (December 15, 2020)
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions Call for Increased Federal Health Care Funding and Accountability (December 10, 2020)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Applauds Excellent Recommendations Released by Long-Term Care Commission Today: Calls on Ford Government to Implement Them Immediately (December 4, 2020)
• RELEASE: Almost Four Dozen People Who Applied to Testify Before the Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on Bill 218 Limiting Legal Liability for COVID-19 Harms for Long-Term Care Homes and Others, Cut Out of the Hearings Today (November 4, 2020)
• RELEASE: 181 COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings leaving 89 residents dead & more than 1,800 staff & patients infected in 6-wks, numbers way up across the board, warns Ontario Health Coalition (November 4, 2020)
• RELEASE: New Report on COVID-19 Outbreaks in Non-Health Care Workplaces Shows Growth in Cases Far Surpass the General Population in Schools, Retail, Public Services: Data & Communication Still Poor, Only One Public Health Unit is Reporting All Outbreaks with Names of Businesses (November 3, 2020)
• RELEASE: Ford’s 4-hour long-term care announcement too late: Need commitment to deal with staffing crisis now (November 2, 2020)
• EVENT: Quick Cross-Ontario Summary & Media from Powerful Day of Action for LTC (October 16, 2020)
• RELEASE & EVENT ROUNDUP: Cross-Province Protest Decries Ford’s Inadequate Response to Long-Term Care Crisis (October 8, 2020)
• EVENT: Day of Action on Long-Term Care (October 5, 2020)
• RELEASE: Throne Speech: Premiers Should Not Play Partisan Politics with Health Care; Concrete Commitments Needed From Provincial & Federal Governments (September 29, 2020)
• RELEASE: Ford Government’s Failure to Release a Plan for COVID-19 Underscored by Alarming Spread of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Homes in Ottawa, 11 Residents Have Died, Problems Apparent with Testing, Isolation, PPE: Ontario Health Coalition Calls for Province-Wide Protests (September 22, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Updated Tracking Reports Shows New 30 Outbreaks & Increase in Deaths in Health & Congregate Care Settings; New Outbreaks in Agriculture, Retail, Shelters and other Non-Health Care Industries (July 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & EVENTS: Actions Across Ontario to Tell Premier Ford that the priority of Ontarians is to fix the long-term care crisis, not to privatize home care (June 30, 2020)
• RELEASE & OPEN LETTER: Ford Government Given Failing Marks in Response to Recommendations on Long-Term Care COVID-19 Response in Joint Open Letter from more than 200 Organizations Representing Almost 2 Million Ontarians (June 30, 2020)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Plans Protests Across Ontario As Ford Government Pushes Through New Laws to Privatize Home & Community Care, Stifle Class Action Suits, In Midst of Pandemic & Fails to Take Action on Emergency Staffing Crisis in Long-Term Care (June 22, 2020)
• EVENTS: Day of Protest Against the Ford Government Pushing Through Its Terrible New Home/Community Care Law While Failure to Act on the LTC Care/Staffing Crisis (June 22, 2020)
• RELEASE: “It is a New Low” Behaviour of Government MPPs in Home Care Legislation Public Hearings Unprecedented and Unacceptable: Health Coalition (June 17, 2020)
• RELEASE & STATEMENT: Statement in Support of the Protests Against Anti-Black Racism & Police Brutality (June 5, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Death Toll Among Patients, Residents and Staff in Health Care Settings up 18.4% in 2 weeks: OHC Tracking Numbers Still Growing But More Slowly (June 5, 2020)
• RELEASE: Inquiry into Long-Term Care & COVID-19 Cannot Preclude Immediate Actions that are Needed, Must be Independent and Transparent: Health Coalition (May 19, 2020)
• EVENT: Online Day of Action to Fix Long-Term Care This Friday! (April 30, 2020)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 numbers still escalating in a “devastating” way in Ontario’s long-term care homes: Health Coalition calls a Day of Action to press Ford government for more concrete measures to stop the spread and stabilize the sector (April 30, 2020)
• UPDATE: Hospital and Long-Term Care Health Care Workers & Long-Term Care Residents Infected with COVID-19 – Data updated to April 21 (April 23, 2020)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Outbreaks Have Grown Exponentially In Health Care Settings: Health Coalition tracking report finds 3,783 people infected and 435 patients/residents/staff deceased (April 23, 2020)
• RELEASE: Action Plan to Stop the Spread of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Inadequate: Ford government must match rhetoric with stronger, concrete measures to protect residents and staff (April 16, 2020)
• UPDATE: Hospital and Long-Term Care Health Care Workers & Long-Term Care Residents Infected with COVID-19 – Data updated to April 7 (April 7, 2020)
• UPDATE: Hospital and Long-Term Care Health Care Workers & Long-Term Care Residents Infected with COVID-19 – Data updated to April 2 (April 2, 2020)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Spreading in Hospitals and Long-Term Care Homes: Updated List & Call for Ford Government to Take More Concrete Action (April 2, 2020)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Roundup: Health Workers/LTC Residents Infected, Government Supports & Relief Measures (April 2, 2020)
• UPDATE: Hospital and Long-Term Care Health Care Workers & Long-Term Care Residents Infected with COVID-19 – Data updated to March 30 (March 31, 2020)
• RELEASE: Why Are So Few Ontarians Being Tested and Tracked? Health Coalition Raises Questions About COVID-19 Numbers (March 31, 2020)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Pre-budget brief: Ontario so far behind that emergency funding just brings us to where we should have been pre-COVID-19 (March 25, 2020)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Roundup: Health Workers/LTC Residents Infected, Government Supports & Relief Measures (March 24, 2020)
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions’ Joint Statement on COVID-19 and Public Health Care (March 24, 2020)

List of Assessment Centres

• RESOURCES: List of Ontario COVID-19 Assessment Centres & Their Individual Criteria (September 11, 2020)

Additional Resources

• RESOURCES & ANALYSIS: COVID-19 Resources & Analysis of the Ford Government’s Response (April 16, 2021)
• RESOURCES: Briefing for Long-Term Care Families: Access for Visitors and Essential Caregivers (January 14, 2021)
• RESOURCES: What are our governments doing and how do they compare? COVID-19 federal and provincial support resources (April 29, 2020)