With this changing disease come more tragedies of younger adults—especially essential workers—being hospitalized and dying from #COVID19.

These stories must be told and Ontario must enact supports like paid sick leave.

But sometimes missing are the stories of older adults.

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In #Ontario, 21.1% of people 60+ and 77.2% of people 80+ have received at least 1 dose of a #CovidVaccine: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/epi/covid-19-vaccine-uptake-ontario-epi-summary.pdf?la=en

Yet">https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/d... in the last 14 days, older adults still accounted for 76/85 (89%) of deaths and 715/1171 (61%) of hospitalizations: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/data-and-analysis/infectious-disease/covid-19-data-surveillance/covid-19-data-tool?tab=ageSex

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Why are we not hearing many stories about older adults during the third wave?

Perhaps it& #39;s because they are no longer dying en masse in #LTC homes.

But it also likely reflects our "identifiable lives bias"—we respond more to lives we identify with: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767950

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I am in no way minimizing the illness and death of younger people—especially essential workers and those living in #COVID19 hotspots.

I am making the point that we also need to remain focused on older adults who are also disproportionately impacted by the #COVID19 pandemic.

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We also need to shorten the vaccine second dose interval for the very oldest, who have less response to 1 dose: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.26.21252512v1

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Ontario"> #Ontario only shortened the interval for (younger) immunocompromised people, once again overlooking older adults: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/03/29/ontario-revises-2nd-vaccine-dose-timeline-for-immunocompromised/

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