COVID-19 eight times over four months, despite not having any symptoms of the virus since mid-May. She’s been forced to do her classes online, and has stopped doing shifts at a Montreal seniors’ residence where she works as an orderly.Côté believes she contracted the virus while working at the Maimonides Geriatric Centre in the first weeks of the pandemic.“The resident who I think I got it from passed away,” Côté says. “It’s very sad.
It’s very hard.”Most COVID-19 patients who test positive are simply told to quarantine at home for 14 days before returning to work.
But as a health care worker, Côté was told she needed two negative tests before she could go back to the seniors’ residence.