COVID-19.“I was like, ‘No way, there’s no way it was positive,’ but it was,” she says. COVID-19 — N.B. announces several Omicron cases, says related to St.
FX outbreak in N.S. Legacy didn’t have the tell-tale cough. She still had her senses of taste and smell, but she also had a high fever, dizziness and aches.She took three at-home rapid tests, all of which showed a positive result, before booking a PCR test.She has Type 1 diabetes, which the CDC notes can make one more vulnerable to serious illness under COVID-19.Within days of testing positive, Legacy was in intensive care on a ventilator.“The nurse helped me video call my mom and I was crying,” she says.“I honestly thought I was dying.”Having been sedated for intubation, Legacy says.