WINNIPEG Since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in March 2020, there has been a level of unpredictability with the disease. John Dobbin and his parents could have never predicted they would have been part of the largest COVID-19 hospital outbreak in October 2020. Dobbin s parents were hospitalized on the fifth floor of the Victoria Hospital the day after Thanksgiving for non-COVID-related infections and the COVID-19 outbreak soon followed. Mike and Gail Dobbin do everything together and they fought COVID together as well something they almost didn t survive. COVID almost killed them, said John. They were both able to fight through, but not without a price.
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