Ray Gentle was feeling ill and resting at home when he collapsed. “I stood up, I tried to walk,” he said. But he wasn’t going anywhere. “Shortage of breath, my lungs just collapsed on me.
And I basically dropped back down where I was,” he added. “I was hyperventilating, I was sweating like a pig. I was just losing it.” His wife called 911 and an ambulance rushed him to Toronto’s Humber River Hospital.
Based on his symptoms — shortness of breath and a fever — staff immediately suspected COVID-19, and they were right. “I have no idea how I came in contact with this virus,” the 55-year-old father of three told Global News from his hospital bed, where he was laid up and on oxygen for over a week. “I’d been indoors, I wasn’t out in the public or