Nora, that you include hospitals in "residential care" might muddy the analysis, because people critically ill with Covid will go to a hospital if at home, and die there, or go from home to skilled nursing facility.
So maybe another way to look at it is "How many people died of Covid at home?"
The hospital data is collected from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and only relates to people who caught COVID while already in hospital for something else. It doesn't capture folks who had COVID, went to the hospital as a result and died.
Nora, that you include hospitals in "residential care" might muddy the analysis, because people critically ill with Covid will go to a hospital if at home, and die there, or go from home to skilled nursing facility.
So maybe another way to look at it is "How many people died of Covid at home?"
The hospital data is collected from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and only relates to people who caught COVID while already in hospital for something else. It doesn't capture folks who had COVID, went to the hospital as a result and died.