Patricia O'Campo – The Conversation

A worker is seen cleaning surfaces inside a long-term care home. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

February 20, 2022

Omitting indoor air quality from COVID‑19 guidance for shelters and long‑term care homes is a grave mistake

Patricia O'Campo, University of Toronto; Jeffrey A. Siegel, University of Toronto; LLana James, Queen's University, Ontario, and Tianyuan (Amy) Li, University of Toronto

Residents of group homes and long-term care are at high risk for COVID-19. But an important aspect has been left out of Public Health Ontario’s guidance for these facilities: indoor air quality.

Toronto Public Health’s tool kit for COVID-19 prevention in congregate living settings contains few references to ventilation, air filtration and other measures to prevent airborne transmission. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

June 28, 2021

How safe are Ontario’s shelters and other shared living settings from airborne COVID‑19?

LLana James, University of Toronto; Jeffrey A. Siegel, University of Toronto, and Patricia O'Campo, University of Toronto

Because COVID-19 is airborne, we can’t know if the shelter system is as safe as it should be without seeing metrics related to ventilation, filtration and occupancy.

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