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The night before the COVID storm began, Timothy Sauvé lost his balance while brushing his teeth, stumbling backwards.
He felt dizzy again the next morning, walking through the lobby of his Mississauga, Ont., condo. Just nerves, he convinced himself. He was due to start a new job in a few days.
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But then, more bouts of dizziness, and some shortness of breath now and again, until the bottom dropped out. He woke one morning, “and for about 30 seconds I had no breath.”  Sitting in the ambulance that December day, an oxygen mask strapped to his face, Sauvé, 61, still wasn’t overly worried. “I’m safe now, they’ve given me oxygen,” he remembers thinking. “I’m in excellent shape. Whatever this is, I’ll get through it.” ....

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