Nisga a couple died of COVID-19 nine days apart
Vern Clayton remembers his parents, Verna Clayton, 74, and Victor Clayton, 73, as loving. He believes they contracted COVID-19 while travelling in Terrace, B.C., in December.
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Posted: Feb 14, 2021 2:25 PM PT | Last Updated: February 14
Nisga a elders Victor Clayton, 73, and his wife, Verna Clayton, 74, died of COVID-19 nine days apart in late January.(Submitted by Vern Clayton)
A Nass Valley man recovering from COVID-19 is mourning the loss of his parents, who died of the same disease just a few days apart.
Vern Clayton s parents, both Nisga a elders, died of COVID-19 nine days apart in late January at Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace, B.C., a 90-minute drive south of Nass Valley.
Clayton had his own close call after testing positive for the virus.
In early January, he was isolating at a Terrace hotel near Mills Memorial Hospital almost 150 kilometres south of his home.
His father was also isolating in the hotel while his mom had been admitted to the hospital, which is one of three COVID-19 emergency response centres in the North. “She didn’t want to go to the hotel. She was scared to be by herself,” Clayton says.
During a routine call, a nurse asked him to check his oxygen levels. They were dangerously low. She told him to call an ambulance.
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