A First Nation braves long shifts in wind, rain, cold and dark after COVID-19 cluster
The last thing Byron Harry imagined having to stickhandle during a COVID-19 community lockdown was a cougar leaping onto his truck. Harry was pulling a graveyard shift at the Klahoose Nation’s emergency checkpoint, which was set up to contain a cluster of cases that had broken out in the remote community on B.C.’s Cortes Island just days before. The logistics and operations team leader with the community’s emergency operation centre (EOC) was sitting in his vehicle working under the glow of his laptop at 3 a.m. when he felt the tailgate dip. Get top stories in your inbox.
Source: nationalobserver.com