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A 34-year-old Regina man recently survived COVID-19 said the province needs to take steps now to greater protect front-line workers from the third wave of the virus, which is now gripping younger people, due to new variants. On March 15, Matthew Cardinal first began to experience symptoms, but by March 24, his condition worsened as […]
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Apr 7, 2021 5:42 PM
Matthew Cardinal was put in a medically induced coma so he could be put on a ventilator after contracting the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant. He was hospitalized on March 22 and was still in hospital as of April 7. (Submitted by Dianne Desjarlais -Cardinal)
Dianne Desjarlais-Cardinal is praying people take COVID-19 as seriously as she is praying for her son to recover fully.
Matthew Cardinal’s condition has slowly improved to the point where doctors moved him out of the intensive care unit (ICU) last week, but he’s still not ready to be discharged from hospital yet.
Desjarlais-Cardinal said the virus changed her 34-year-old son from a perfectly healthy man with no comorbidities to a hospital patient struggling to breathe in the ICU.