Coronavirus: What one of the youngest patients in a B.C. ICU wants you to know Kutyn became ill in mid-March, when the first wave of COVID-19 was spreading rapidly throughout the province.At the time, testing was only being offered to health-care workers and close contacts of confirmed cases, but Kutyn’s doctor and 811 health line said the believed she had the coronavirus.“I even had to go to the hospital (after almost losing consciousness) and the doctors there said it’s likely COVID as well, based on the way it progressed and the symptoms and the timeline,” she said.Kutyn was not hospitalized or put on a ventilator, but spent the better part of a month in bed, isolated at her parents home.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the.