Now recovering from COVID-19, 72-year-old Rodger Gollogly says the credit goes to Kingston General Hospital staff. “The staff, they come, work their 12-hour shifts, they go home,” he said. “They look after their family, they come back again and do it all over again.” The retired hotel owner was in Arizona with his wife Susan when the Canadian government called back residents because of the spread of COVID-19.
The couple left Tucson on March 21 and arrived in Gananoque three days later. Despite engaging in social isolation and maintaining physical distancing, Gollogly says a few days after getting home, his wife started showing symptoms of COVID-19. “She started feeling sick and nausea, and sore throat, coughing, low grade fever,” he said.