COVID-19 in long-term care homes in Ontario and British Columbia.

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Harvard Medical School (Liu), Boston, Mass.; Department of Social Policy and Intervention (Liu), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health and Health Systems (Maxwell), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.; ICES Central (Maxwell, Bronskill); Department of Sociology (Armstrong), York University; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Moser); Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Bronskill, Dhalla), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Department of Medicine (Dhalla), University of Toronto; Baycrest Health Sciences (Moser); Unity Health Toronto (Dhalla), Toronto, Ont.; Faculty of Medicine (Schwandt), School of Population and Public Health, and Department of Family Practice (McGregor), University of British Columbia; Vancouver Coastal Health (Schwandt); Vancouver, BC.

Published: November 2020

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