Health Canada authorizes remdesivir to treat severe COVID-19 Valerie Smith, 55, contracted COVID-19 shortly after her father Russell Smith passed away on Sept.
23. She had been visiting him at the Foothills Medical Centre, where he had been since late August. Her mother also tested positive but only had mild symptoms.Russell tested positive for COVID-19 on Sept.
19. Surgeries postponed, visitors restricted as COVID-19 outbreak grows at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre Stephen Smith, Russell’s son, said that his dad went to the Foothills hospital in late August because he wasn’t feeling well.