Posted: Apr 08, 2021 3:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 8
Matthew Cardinal said one of the strangest things of this experience is that doctors can t tell him why he got so sick and required intensive care. (Submitted by Dianne Desjarlais Cardinal)
Matthew Cardinal said Saskatchewan s government must re-evaluate its vaccination strategy so that other people don t have to face death as he did, or grapple with the trauma that comes after.
The 34-year-old is still recovering in hospital after the B117 coronavirus variant nearly took his life. The way the province is handling this I really wish they would prioritize frontline staff, like grocery store clerks, servers, delivery drivers, he said.
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REGINA A Regina mother is using her son’s battle with a COVID-19 variant to urge the public to take provincial guidelines seriously. It’s every mother’s worst nightmare, not being able to help their child when they’re sick. That’s the reality for Dianne Desjarlais-Cardinal whose 34-year-old son Matthew Cardinal is in the hospital with COVID-19. “My son’s going through it right now, he’s in the fight for his life,” Desjarlais-Cardinal said. Desjarlais-Cardinal describes her son as a healthy, vivacious man, but his health deteriorated after contracting the B.1.1.7 variant that is exploding in Regina.
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