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