MONT-LAURIER | A still fit 73-year-old man died in just a few days from COVID after a visit from an unvaccinated heating company employee who was carrying the virus who did not comply with health measures.
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“We weren’t expecting it … It’s shocking! We have been vaccinated, we protect ourselves from the start, we are careful, we avoid certain places and we have someone who comes to us who gives us [la COVID-19]. It’s free and it cost the life of my husband, ”drops throat tight, Nicole Mayer-Doré, who lost her partner on October 3 as a result of respiratory complications from COVID.
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On September 15, Mme Mayer-Doré and her husband Raymond Doré receive a visit from an estimator from a heating company in Mont-Laurier, in the Laurentians, where they live.
« [L’employé] stayed about 40-45 minutes moving around the house and wearing his mask under his nose. Not once did he put it on correctly, ”says the 73-year-old woman who had just celebrated 50 years of marriage to her husband.
Without news of the entrepreneur the next day, the family contacts the company and learns that the worker is ill. After several days of silence on the part of the company, it is by dint of questioning that Mr. Doré and his family learn that he was a carrier of COVID-19, which the company confirmed to the Journal.
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Raymond Doré
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In addition, the employee in question does not hide his anti-vaccine and anti-health measures convictions on social networks.
Overwhelming
At the same time, Raymond Doré had to be hospitalized to undergo several health tests, in particular for his arrhythmia and a few episodes of pressure drop.
“At that time my father had a positive COVID test [le 24 septembre]. Our arms have fallen to us. Suddenly, his condition deteriorated rapidly and in less than two weeks he died, ”explains one of the eldest’s three daughters, Isabelle Doré.
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Nicoles Mayer-Doré and his three daughters, Stéphanie, Isabelle and Nathalie, urge companies in contact with the public to send contractors vaccinated and respectful of measures in the elderly, after the husband and father died of COVID- 19.
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According to the latter, because of his poor oxygenation, the 73-year-old man needed to be intubated temporarily to be transferred to the Saint-Jérôme hospital on September 29.
“His lungs were completely destroyed [par le virus], he needed too much assistance and he didn’t want to be pushy so we had to let him go [le 3 octobre] », Adds Mme Mayer-Doré, wiping away her tears.
15 years older
The newspaper could not scientifically confirm where the contamination came from, for which we do not name the company or the employee, but everything indicates that the hypothesis of the family is true.
For relatives, who have been fully tested and who have not had a positive case, it is clear that the contamination occurred when the employee showed up to make the submission.
“My father didn’t see anyone, he didn’t do the grocery shopping either and he respected the security measures!” He could at least have lived 15 more years, ”thinks the youngest of the family, Stéphanie Doré.
For his wife, the feeling of guilt is very strong.
“I blame myself so much … I should have asked him to wear his mask properly, to wash his hands.” But I told myself that he was young, in good health and that he would not go to people without being vaccinated and being sick, ”she says.
Avoidable
The president of the Association des microbiologistes du Québec, Christian Jacob, believes that by not being vaccinated and by not wearing his mask correctly, the company employee has removed two important barrier gestures, which could lead to contamination.
“It’s probably a perfectly preventable death,” he explains.
For the three daughters and the wife of Raymond Doré, the population must not hesitate to ask people who come to their homes to show their credentials with proof of vaccination.
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“We paid dearly to find out and I don’t want it to happen to others, we must not be shy about refusing people who are not vaccinated at home,” says Isabelle Doré, the youngest of the siblings.
A 3e dose to seniors at home
Vaccinated seniors living at home should receive a third dose soon, argue experts and the family of a fully vaccinated senior who died of COVID-19.
“We must give the third dose to our elders, we must protect them,” urges Isabelle Doré, one of the daughters of a 73-year-old man who died of complications from the disease.
