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VANCOUVER For the first time in British Columbia, COVID-19 has taken the life of a nurse. Diana Law died on April 14, following a lengthy battle with the virus. Law, 57, was a patient care coordinator at Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock. Prior to that, she worked at the former Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver. Law started feeling sick last Christmas. Her family thought it may have been a side effect of medication she took regularly for a kidney transplant she had eight years ago. Then, on New Year’s Eve, Law was admitted to Vancouver General Hospital. Her blood pressure and oxygen levels were low, and she tested positive for COVID-19.
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Culshaw said his wife was inspired by her father John, a physician who she helped as a teenager. She was smart. She should have been a doctor, really, Culshaw said.
He is convinced his wife was exposed to COVID-19 at work.
Law had not been vaccinated at the time she became ill. He said his wife had a kidney transplant in 2013 and also had diabetes, so she was immuno-compromised.
She took anti-rejection drugs as a result of the transplant, and at the time directives were not clear about whether the COVID-19 vaccine was safe for transplant recipients. Health officials have since advised that the vaccines are safe for transplant recipients.
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