COVID-19 following her first dose of the vaccine.“It’s not a good experience. I almost died. And luckily, I made it, I survived,” she said.Now at home recovering from the ordeal, McRae credits the vaccine with helping her beat the virus.“I was lucky enough to be on the (ventilator) for only three-and-a-half or four days.
Some people are on it for a long, long time and they end up having a tracheotomy and all that stuff … so that’s the first vaccine, and that was within less than 10 days after I got it.
So it did help,” she said. ‘She deteriorated like she fell off a cliff’: Vaccinated Ontario senior battles COVID-19 in hospital McRae said she was looking forward to getting the vaccine.