COVID-19 in Brooks: How a small Alberta city faced one of Canada’s most virulent outbreaks
When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit Brooks, Alta., Meriam Funa was among the first to get sick. Her husband came home from work at the JBS meat packing plant feeling like he had the flu, and within days, Funa started experiencing symptoms as well. “The first few days, I thought it was just an ordinary flu and then the cough started and the difficulty breathing was real — that was the scariest part.” said Funa. “I thought it was just an ordinary cough, but when the difficulty breathing started, I said, ‘oh, it’s real, it’s COVID.” Funa and her husband both tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-April but in this community of less than 15,000 people, there would soon be many more. “It was after the Easter long weekend, we started to see some
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