Her 90-year-old mother survived COVID-19, but the experience was 'haunting'
Charna Bonan thought her mother had been handed a death sentence when she was diagnosed with COVID-19, caught at her long-term care home in Montreal last spring.
As COVID-19 hit long-term care centres, Charna Bonan could only watch, and hope her mother survived
Living Through COVID-19: Charna Bonan
CBC News Montreal
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Charna Bonan was 500 kilometres away when her mother's long-term care home was hit with a COVID-19 outbreak last March.
"I panicked," she said. "To me, it was a death sentence."
Bonan lives in Toronto. Her mother, who is 90 and suffers from dementia, lives in Montreal — the epicentre of the virus's spread in Canada last spring.
"I'm haunted when I think how alone she was, how frightened she must have been," she said.
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