A fully vaccinated Ontario man has died after a COVID-19 outbreak swept through his adult hockey league.
Oro-Medonte father-of-three Garry Weston died last week after suffering a severe stroke while fighting pneumonia caused by COVID-19, his family says.
"My dad was an avid sports person," Weston-Campbell told CTV News Toronto on Thursday. "He's been waiting to go back and play because he just loved hockey.""It was like a cold, but it progressively got worse at home," she said. "He was struggling to breathe." Weston-Campbell said the doctors told her the damage caused by the stroke was irreversible and he would have "no quality of life" if he managed to survive when taken off life support.
"We just want people to be vigilant," she said. "It's a very small number of people, but you never know when that number is going to be you."
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