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Some recovered COVID-19 patients say they feel ‘ashamed’ and misunderstood after diagnosis
coronavirus patients, some Canadians are finding others are misinformed about their condition — and they’re being treated differently in some cases.Global News spoke to Canadians who recovered from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, since being diagnosed in March, and while most say close friends and family aren’t treating them differently, others behave as if they are still infected.Currently, there are over 52,000 people in Canada who have been deemed recovered from the coronavirus, meaning they are no longer infectious. That’s more than half of the over 94,000 confirmed cases of the virus in the country.