COVID-19 variant shortly after arriving at Toronto’s Humber River Hospital for an unrelated health concern. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and she had to be placed on a ventilator, suffering a cardiac arrest after the intubation process.Abas says the woman is more stable this morning, but as cases involving the variants of the novel coronavirus rise, a patient’s situation can change quickly.
The day before, another COVID-19 patient in a similar condition — who had just retired last month — passed away. She says it happened fast.“We tried to bring them back, we couldn’t,” she recalls.