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Even with an abundance of COVID-19 vaccine doses in Manitoba, Bob Kelln has been offered no guarantees for when his wife, Elaine, who lives in a personal care home, will get her second shot.
Even with an abundance of COVID-19 vaccine doses in Manitoba, Bob Kelln has been offered no guarantees for when his wife, Elaine, who lives in a personal care home, will get her second shot. It’s frustrating because my wife is losing her memory almost daily, and her physical abilities, and she can’t even see her son on a regular basis, said Kellin, 75, adding his wife can’t receive visitors until she is fully immunized.
Like a sneak thief in the night, COVID-19 stole into The Convalescent Home of Winnipeg undetected.
No one knows how, exactly, the virus got into the Hugo Street personal-care home; none of the 84 residents or any staff members were showing any symptoms when the first positive case came back on Dec. 6.
But the virus made its presence known with force. Little more than a month later, the numbers tell a frightening tale.
Eighteen of the 84 residents died, the latest a woman in her 60s reported Thursday. Sixty-three residents contracted the virus and have recovered. Three others have somehow managed not to get sick.