Doug Rae, an ICU outreach nurse at St. Paul’s Hospital, had been helping to look after Ray Buchanan, an accomplished, 89-year-old costume designer who’d worked in theatre and film.

Buchanan had recently returned from an overseas trip to London, where he may have contracted the virus. He was put into isolation in hospital and began to fade.

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