After landing in the hospital on Christmas Day, Randy Samms has spent hours considering how close he came to dying from COVID-19. Now he looks forward to an occasion he has long avoided: The day he’ll get vaccinated.
“I was afraid of the vaccine,” said Samms, sitting in a chair beside his hospital bed in the COVID-19 ward at Bluewater Health in Sarnia, Ont. Now, though, “I would say, ‘Definitely get the vaccine.'”
He’s still recovering after spending two weeks in the hospital’s intensive care unit, where Samms was told he was very nearly put on life support. Though he was able to leave the
