COVID-19 — caseloads, test positivity rates, hospitalizations and, most grimly, deaths.Those stats tell us a lot about the virus, but very little about the people who suffer through the disease and those who don’t make it.In an effort to highlight the personal impact of the pandemic, 680 CJOB and Global News spoke with Manitobans who lost loved ones to COVID-19 this year.“We had really been holding out hope that she just had a seasonal cold,” said Jenn Lambert, whose 80-year-old mother, Elizabeth Olah, died Nov.
9.“It’s an excruciating conversation to have with a physician to give them the green light to put your mother on a ventilator, just to buy you the time to get there to say goodbye.”Eddie Calisto-Tavares, who lost her 88-year-old.