On Britain's Covid-19 frontline, medics and patients fight for life | Malay Mail

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MILTON KEYNES (England), Jan 21 ― At Milton Keynes University Hospital in England, it's a battle between life and death. For those most ill, death is gaining the upper hand. The latest Covid-19 wave has hit the hospital northwest of London with even more force than the first: younger patients...

Thursday, 21 Jan 2021 03:34 PM MYT

Stephen Marshall, 68, is one of them. After testing negative for Covid-19 following a recent operation on his back, he initially thought he had a cold. “I can only just imagine how difficult that is for family at the end of the telephone to be told that their loved one is getting worse ... or they're agitated or their oxygen levels are dropping,” she said.The youngest person in her eight-bed unit is 51-year-old supermarket worker Victorita Andries. She was put on oxygen immediately when she was admitted five days ago.

“Our mortality probably in the first wave for patients coming onto intensive care was around 40 per cent. This time around we find that the mortality is about 80 per cent.”

 

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