COVID-19 and long-term care facilities: Does ownership matter?

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¹ Department of Family Practice (McGregor), University of British Columbia; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation (McGregor), Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC; University of California San Francisco (Harrington), San Francisco, Calif. mrgret@mail.ubc.ca.
² Department of Family Practice (McGregor), University of British Columbia; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation (McGregor), Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC; University of California San Francisco (Harrington), San Francisco, Calif.

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Margaret J McGregor et al. CMAJ. 2020.

. 2020 Aug 17;192(33):E961-E962.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.201714. Epub 2020 Jul 22.

¹ Department of Family Practice (McGregor), University of British Columbia; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation (McGregor), Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC; University of California San Francisco (Harrington), San Francisco, Calif. mrgret@mail.ubc.ca.
² Department of Family Practice (McGregor), University of British Columbia; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation (McGregor), Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC; University of California San Francisco (Harrington), San Francisco, Calif.

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Competing interests: None declared.

For-profit long-term care homes and the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks and resident deaths.
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