Affected in various ways, here are the stories of some of the people still facing the COVID-19 pandemic every day.
From the medically and economically vulnerable to those on the front lines of the health-care system’s
“Some of those COVID-recovered were our patients, and working with them, seeing what they went through, they didn’t feel recovered,” says McKittrick, also an interprofessional educator at the Bickle Centre, a part of University Health Network. “Thankfully, they didn’t die. But they basically have a life in front of them which is vastly changed.”
Her parents pulled her after first hearing about the novel coronavirus in the winter of 2020, knowing that Bella would be in danger of getting dangerously ill if infected. “If I were to compare her to my son, someone who is non-disabled and has definitely had disruption in their day-to-day life, I would say for someone like Bella, who has various disabilities, the pandemic disruptions are amplified times 100.”
As a resident of Kensington Gardens, a long-term-care home in Toronto, the risks to Parraga and her 350-odd fellow residents are very real. Long-term-care homes have been among the hardest hit settings, particularly during the virus’s first deadly wave that killed some 1,500 residents.
“I’m not a politician but I think the politicians are terribly worried about this. That’s why they’re proposing this pandemic freedom.”Aravind Joseph would like the general public to know that anything that makes the pandemic last longer makes his already vulnerable and disadvantaged clients even more isolated.
Similarly, meals could no longer be served communally. As a result, the Community Corner was forced to deliver some 13,000 meals over a period of about seven months, mostly to vulnerable seniors.
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