The organizer of an adult hockey league in Newmarket, Ont. is looking for answers after one of his players died and 14 others who were all fully vaccinated became infected with COVID-19 in a matter of days.
York Region Public Health has linked 15 confirmed cases to games played on Sept. 27, Sept. 30 and Oct. 4 at the National Training Rinks.
"When I heard it, I couldn't believe it," said Adlam, who recalled the last text messaged he exchanged with Weston. "He texted me he has the sniffles, I wrote him a text back, 'your strong Garry, you're going to get through this' and he didn't reply." Dr. Gould noted that players are not required to wear masks when playing on the ice and on the bench, increasing the likelihood of transmission.
“The ice rink provides a venue that is likely well suited to COVID-19 transmission as an indoor environment where deep breathing occurs, and persons are in close proximity to one another,” the"Cold air is protective of COVID, in other words it's a bit more dangerous for us, so if you got a situation with close physical contact and people breathing hard on each other without masks it does sound like a perfect storm," said Dr.
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