With the lack of clear information provided by the government in every facet of the pandemic, rumours abounded. One rumour making the rounds was that everyone was being marked as a Covid death. “No,” she stated. “A lot of people were coming in with respiratory arrest or something, and a lot of the time the medical certificates that came with them would say ‘possible Covid’ [which was determined with a test that took a few days to process]. “But no, not everybody was coming in as Covid.”