coronavirus pandemic began, when Ontario’s long-term care homes were walloped by the deadly disease over the course of several weeks, the effort to protect the province’s seniors has almost been Herculean by many frontline workers and officials.With the promise of a vaccine to protect Ontario’s most vulnerable residents set against a recent increase in cases at long-term care settings, questions continue to be asked about what more can be done to protect seniors not only in the coming weeks but also in subsequent years and decades.“Long-term care facilities are the ones that are going to bear the brunt of this infection disproportionately as compared to other health care and other settings entirely,” Dr.