Despite having any symptoms for COVID-19 after resigning from CHSLD Herron in Dorval, nurse Kristy-Lyn Kemp insisted she be tested for the virus before starting a new job at another seniors residence. “So I called (the COVID-19 hotline). … I told them I had been working at Herron, it was a COVID hot zone, I was around the sick, I was around people who were passing away but I was asymptomatic and they told me flat out, ‘nope you don’t need a test’,” said Kemp.
She said she called back a second time speaking French, out of fear they would recognize her voice from earlier, and pretended to be ill. “I made up symptoms.
I said I had a fever, I have a cough.” The next day she had an appointment at the Beaconsfield testing centre — 24 hours later