A year ago this Saturday, April 17, three residents of Northwood, the long-term care centre in the heart of Halifax, died of COVID-19. Fifty more would die in the course of the next six, frantic weeks. While COVID raged inside the facility, the north end complex was sealed off from the surrounding community. The virus […]
Stephanie Nolen
Stephanie Nolen is the Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and an eight-time winner of the National Newspaper Award—a record for reporting wins. She is a seven-time winner of the Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Reporting, a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award, a winner of the PEN Courage Prize for her coverage of the African AIDS pandemic, and was an Ochberg Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. She lives one block from Northwood Centre.
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Remembering Northwood’s COVID-19 dead
In the 44 days between April 17 and May 30, 2020, there were 53 residents of the Northwood long-term care residence who died of COVID-19. They were announced each day as a statistic at the premier’s COVID briefing. Their names, and their stories, were kept anonymous. The death toll became a data point that gave […]