Taking 25 mg of Zinc daily is not harmful and has benefits.
There is actually decent evidence that Zinc can help fight off viral infections. Magnesium may kill viruses “in-vitro” – that’s to say, in a petri dish in a lab, but more study is needed to see how it works in a human body. To be candid, the evidence for Magnesium is not that great. I applaud their commitment to keeping residents safe.Īdditionally, there has been much speculation about the benefits of Magnesium, Zinc and Vitamin D in fighting viruses. While the physical plant at Bay Haven is quite old, I am extremely grateful that the management of Bay Haven invested in HEPA air purifiers for all the large common areas, even before Health Canada updated their website to indicate the risk of airborne spread. With this knowledge, it is becoming more and more apparent of the need for high quality ventilation and air purifiers, particularly those with HEPA filters. All of our staff and visitors have been required to wear masks for many months, in addition to all the other screening that we do. This is why wearing a mask is so important. That’s to say that it is expelled by your mouth when you breath/talk/sing and floats in the air for a large period of time, thus spreading to others. We now know that the virus is largely spread by what’s called “aerosolized” means. We still don’t know everything about it, nor do we have a cure, but we can be better prepared than we were in the past. Our knowledge of the COVID-19 virus has increased significantly in the past few months. I hope and pray that it will stay that it will stay that way, and that the other nursing homes get out of outbreak as soon as possible. Thankfully, Bay Haven is not one of them. As I write this, 99 out of 626 nursing homes in Ontario are in outbreak from COVID-19.
HAPPY ENDINGS NURSING HOME UPDATE
Dear Friends & Family of Bay Haven Care Community,Īs the Medical Director of Bay Haven, I wanted to write to all of you to update you on some important new information about COVID-19.Īs you are likely aware, Ontario is now firmly in the second wave of the seemingly never-ending COVID-19 pandemic.
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