>> >>It's not a good time to get sick.
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>> Similar story this morning from my tiler, whose daughter is a hospital nurse not far
>> from here. We are not yet comfortably into the "living with it" phase.
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Yes, far from it.
Miss Z came home last night totally exhausted. I had to pick her up because she was too tiered to drive. I also took a colleague of hers home for the same reason. They both fell asleep in the car and Miss Z's a marathon runner.
There were six deaths on her ward a couple quite young. Some, to her mind un-necessary, though she's still junior, but you know things aren't going well when the usually as hard as nails, very experienced and considered very good consultant breaks down in tears because there's nothing more that can be done for a patient, who in more normal times would probably have survived. (No capacity for surgery, no ITU beds and no transfers amongst a myriad of other reasons.)
None of the deaths were due to Covid, but Covid probably delayed some of the treatment.
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