Mike
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Canadian truck driver Nicole Folz began suspecting she had COVID-19 as she prepared to make her final less-than-truckload delivery in South Carolina last week, some 14 hours from home in Ontario.
The sore throat and dry cough she noticed after she crossed into the U.S. had gotten worse. A thermometer she purchased confirmed she had a fever of 101.3 on April 8. Breathing became harder, too. And she had lots of pain.
By the time she blew a tire near Washington, Pennsylvania, on her backhaul, she had a fever of 102.2.
It got much worse from there. She required supplemental oxygen by the time she arrived at Etobicoke General Hospital in Toronto on April 10, after crossing the border and dropping off her tractor-trailer. Fluid had started to fill her lungs.
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The sore throat and dry cough she noticed after she crossed into the U.S. had gotten worse. A thermometer she purchased confirmed she had a fever of 101.3 on April 8. Breathing became harder, too. And she had lots of pain.
By the time she blew a tire near Washington, Pennsylvania, on her backhaul, she had a fever of 102.2.
It got much worse from there. She required supplemental oxygen by the time she arrived at Etobicoke General Hospital in Toronto on April 10, after crossing the border and dropping off her tractor-trailer. Fluid had started to fill her lungs.
Don’t leave home without COVID-19 plan, sick trucker urges
From quarantine, Canadian truck driver Nicole Folz recounts the scary reality of falling seriously ill with COVID-19 while on the road in the U.S.
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