“We are used to dealing with illness and death,” says Dr Sonia Adesara. “What we’re not used to dealing with, is so much of it.”
She is one of four frontline NHS workers to talk about their daily struggle against a virus that is raging across the country.
For some, it’s an impending sensation in their intensive care units (ICUs), full of patients struggling to breathe. For others, it is the tears they shed on the way home at the end of a move, or the anger and harassment that is aimed at those who deny the severity of the disease.
But there is a common type: no one was mentally willing to deal with the number of sick patients for such a long time.
How a patient is admitted to hospital with coronavirus “every thirty seconds”, according to a senior NHS England official and obesity coming in after nearly a year of fighting Covid -19, NHS frontline staff give us an insight into what is going through the mind within the ICU.
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