A nurse puts on her Personal Protective Equipment before tending to a COVID-19 patient on October 21, 2020 .When the pandemic struck the UK in March last year, Peter was not too worried about catching Covid-19.
Peter and none of the patients around him could breathe on their own, relying on tubes down their throats to pump oxygen into their lungs from a ventilator. Compared with when Peter went to the ICU during the first spike in cases in April, Covid-related hospital admissions in England have risen by 62 percent.On 4 January, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced another national lockdown in England, closing schools and asking residents to stay home for all but a few necessary reasons, as a new, more infectious variant gripped parts of the UK.
Dr Charlotte Summers, 46, an ICU consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, works shifts as long as 17 hours in full PPE, making the work"exhausting, hot and slower". Is it miserable sometimes? Yes. Do I cry about it? Yes. Anybody who tells you they’re not untouched by the sheer awfulness of the pandemic is being untruthful. When we stop being moved by what we’re seeing, we stop being human.
Lol I hope not, this is just the beginning!
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