Egan: The dead, the ill, the ill-at-ease â a virus that forgot no one Not only did the pandemic have this unfailing way of making almost everything worse, it questioned our fundamentals. Author of the article: Kelly Egan Publishing date: Mar 11, 2021  â¢Â March 11, 2021  â¢Â 4 minute read  â¢Â FILE PHOTO: Colourized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (greenish brown) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (pink), also known as novel coronavirus, isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and colour-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Photo by NIAID /via REUTERS Article content Of the million people in Ottawa, relatively few contracted COVID-19 during the last year, just over 15,000.