Prognosis
Canada’s Covid Hot Zone Is Deadlier Than Chicago or L.A.
- Montreal nears 4,000 deaths; troops called in to help elderly
- Virus has spread like wildfire through seniors’ care homes
Shoppers wearing protective masks wait in line to enter at a department store in Montreal on May 25.
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The city’s death rate has been staggering: higher than those of almost every U.S. state, higher than in greater Chicago, Los Angeles or Toronto.
The place is Montreal, the business and cultural center of Quebec, where the coronavirus pandemic has struck the elderly with unusual savagery. The struggle to contain the outbreak has forced the provincial government to resort to desperate measures.