The first five days of Jill King’s Florida vacation were already not ideal. When King and her boyfriend arrived in the city of Largo on March 10 for his daughter’s competitive swimming training camp, they had learned the pool had closed.
Businesses in the area had started to shut down due to COVID-19, and there wasn’t much for her to do. But the trip would deteriorate further for King, as the 49-year-old from Burlington, Ont., started to feel sick on March 15. “Initially, it started with the shortness of breath.
It was quite bad, actually. I would walk from kitchen to living room and be totally out of breath, coughing,” she said. Within a week, King would be diagnosed with COVID-19.