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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Meet the COVID survivor who threw the first pitch at a historic Blue Jays game
Description: Jeffrey Freedman was working for a Toronto tile company when the pandemic hit. The office was deemed an essential service, so Freedman kept going into work. His wife's daycare business was shut down due to the pandemic and money got tight, so he kept going in until he took ill. He started having trouble breathing and was rushed to North York General Hospital near the end of Passover. On April 15, he was taken into the ICU, where he spent more than a month living on a ventilator.
Miraculously, Freedman survived. But he hasn't been the same since...