COVID-19 is back home, and sharing her story.Darlene Lourenco teaches at Cambridge Elementary, the Surrey school that was closed for two weeks amid an outbreak of the virus.She spent two weeks in hospital, more than half of it in the intensive care unit.“I wasn’t on a ventilator but I was on ever-increasing oxygen,” she told Global News.“It’s not just a flu.
It is a big deal.” Community rallies behind Surrey music teacher battling COVID-19 in ICU Lourenco said she has several underlying conditions, including asthma, and didn’t return to work in June due to concerns about the virus.She said she raised questions and concerns about the back-to-school plan in the fall, but returned to work anyway.She is now certain she contracted the virus.