Fully vaccinated Ontario man dies after COVID-19 sweeps through his hockey league

From CTV - A fully vaccinated Ontario man has died after a COVID-19 outbreak swept through his adult hockey league.

Oro-Medonte father-of-three Garry Weston died last week after suffering a severe stroke while fighting pneumonia caused by COVID-19, his family says.

His daughter, Amber Weston-Campbell, said the 75-year-old contracted the disease in late September while playing in his three-on-three hockey league in Newmarket for the first time in 18 months.

There were 15 COVID-19 cases linked to the hockey league and all were breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people, officials in York Region said.

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"My dad was an avid sports person," Weston-Campbell told CTV News Toronto on Thursday. "He's been waiting to go back and play because he just loved hockey."

A few days after playing, Weston-Campbell said her dad started to feel unwell.

"It was like a cold, but it progressively got worse at home," she said. "He was struggling to breathe."

Weston was admitted to hospital but wasn’t getting any better. He was transferred to intensive care and not long after that was intubated.

"As they were intubating him, he developed signs and symptoms of a stroke," Weston-Campbell, who is a registered nurse, said. "They discovered after he had a massive stroke. The doctor basically said to us he wouldn’t be able to come home. It was a grim diagnosis."

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