Investigators from York University Target Coronavirus (The Dissipation of Corporate Accountability: Deaths of the Elderly In For-profit Care Homes During the Coronavirus Pandemic).

A report from investigators at York University in Toronto, Canada, examines the issue of corporate accountability in for-profit care homes for the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research highlights how these care homes continued to pay bonuses to executives and dividends to investors while COVID-related deaths increased. The study explores the healthcare and financial governance systems in the industry and argues that they work together to dissipate corporate accountability, creating a fragmented and inadequate system. The researchers suggest that this division within the moral community allows corporations to be seen as accountable entities. [Extracted from the article]