Two Kahnawakero:non Hospitalized For COVID-19 Have Recovered

While there are no active cases of COVID-19 in Kahnawake, a man was the second person from the community to be hospitalized for the coronavirus. Angus Teddy Canadian was stricken with the virus late in February. A woman also tested positive at some point this year and spent a short time in hospital, according to the Kahnawake COVID-19 Task Force. Canadian was the last person in his home to come down with the virus, just after his wife Debbie McGregor. Four members of the five person household caught COVID-19. 

McGregor believed she was in the clear after being in isolation for 13 days, but she ended up feeling ill on her last day and tested positive on Feb 24th. 

“I was already feeling a little bit off,” she said. “I felt like I had a sinus infection because I had it a few times before. My daughter said: ‘Go get tested,’ so I did. I was positive. I was just finished my isolation and it was just crazy.”  

While concerned about her own health, McGregor was far more worried for her 80 year old husband.  

“I was just devastated,” she said. “Devastated because I knew. My husband is 80 years old and I thought; ‘God, what are his chances’? I did everything; clean, sterilize, disinfected and still we all caught it. We did our best to not get it, and we did.” 

Canadian, the oldest living Vietnam Veteran in Kahnawake, then caught COVID-19 as well. He struggled physically before being sent to the Anna Laberge Hospital in Chateauguay. 

“The time he went to the hospital he was already six days in of having COVID,” McGregor said. “He spent four days with COVID in the hospital, but they kept him 10 whole days. He just came home yesterday (Wednesday). He’s feeling 100 percent better.”