Quebec judge OK's class-action suit over COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care homes
A now authorized class-action lawsuit against the Quebec government alleges that the province's response to the first two waves of COVID-19 was improvised and that a pre-existing pandemic plan was ignored until it was too late.
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![Workers pull a body out of CHSLD Yvon Brunet in Montreal's Sud-Ouest borough. Quebec's long-term care home have emerged as the epicentre of the epidemic. Workers say more could have been done to prevent it. Workers carrying a stretcher.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.5544546.1706024304!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/covid-19-chsld-yvon-brunet.jpg)
A now authorized class-action lawsuit against the Quebec government alleges that the province's response to the first two waves of COVID-19 was improvised and that a pre-existing pandemic plan was ignored until it was too late.