COVID-19 pandemic.Dr. Kevin McLeod works in the COVID-19 ward at North Vancouver’s Lions Gate Hospital. Last weekend, three of his patients died.“People with COVID, they worsen very quickly,” McLeod said.“So those deaths … people were on a little bit of oxygen, maybe two litres.
I would look at them and think, you know, this person’s going to get through it and eight hours later they’re dead.”Most deaths involved elderly patients, but not all of them.
Earlier this year, a woman in her early 50s waiting for a liver transplant passed away after contracting the coronavirus.“She was a mom,” he said. “She had parents and that was not somebody who would have died.”[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]McLeod.