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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: "A fire waiting to happen": Canada’s hardest-hit Jewish senior’s home braces for Omicron
Description: In spring 2020, COVID-19 ripped though the Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Montreal. The facility was understaffed and underprepared to begin with, and while it went into strict lockdown and the army was called in, 67 of its residents have since died from the pandemic.
The arrival of the vaccine, one year ago this month, was seen as a beacon of hope. This week, the centre hosted a party to celebrate that anniversary. Cards with the phrase "Celebrating our shot at a future without COVID-19" were on display. They brought out cookies and ballons, and a rabbi recited...