Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre when she was assigned to care for Canada’s first confirmed COVID-19 patient.At the time, it was an illness shrouded in mystery.
It was still known by many as the “Wuhan virus” because significantly less was known about it, and much of the news coverage on it was still filtering out of China.Eight months later, there have been at least 150,000 cases across Canada and more than 9,200 deaths.“On the TV… I would see doctors and nurses in hazmat suits essentially,” Shen recalled.“They were just having these grueling days where they were stuck in a suite for 12 hours or who knows how long.”It was Jan.