London, Ont. deputy mayor shares personal experience isolating due to COVID-19

COVID-19 after his five-year-old son tested positive on a rapid test.Morgan said the positive case resulted in a “whirlwind of decisions” as he and his wife determined how to “navigate this in a household of six.” COVID-19 — Walks-in now accepted at Earl Nichols London, Ont.

vaccine clinic Soon after Max came home from school Tuesday, Morgan said, he told his parents he wasn’t feeling well.“We have a young baby, too, so I thought, ‘You know, just in case, we’ll separate them.’”A rapid test came back positive and Morgan and his wife, Melanie, decided that he and Max would isolate in a portion of the house while Melanie, their infant and their two older daughters would cohort together.

Heavy snow, bus cancellations to start return to school in London, Ont. region One aspect of the situation that he found surprising and challenging was to discover the impact of the results on his son mentally.“Max can be a perfectionist at times.

You know, he’s only five, but he likes to do the right thing. And I can tell you his reaction was he felt pretty crushed,” Morgan said.“He felt like he had done something wrong, that he had made a mistake and that’s why he got COVID.”Morgan said he explained to his son that it was not a personal failing, that the Omicron variant is just very transmissible, that his son had had his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and would soon get his second and that the family made all the right decisions after the rapid test came back positive.“When he woke up feeling a little bit better (Wednesday) morning, I think he felt a little more optimistic.” Fortunately for Morgan, the majority of the meetings he had this week were virtual.