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Mortality rate for coronavirus patients put in intensive care is close to 50%, shock report reveals Data shows 79 out of 165 people who entered intensive care have died The report also reveals men are more at risk to the deadly virus than women It raises questions about the effectiveness of the treatment in intensive … Read more
Patients crammed into hospital corridors, on trolleys, or simply slumped against walls. The oldest – and sickest – left gasping for air, abandoned. Doctors forced to decide who must be given treatment and a chance to live, and who is beyond help. Accounts of the situation in some Italian and Spanish hospitals read like something out of … Read more
The NHS could allow doctors to hook two patients up to one ventilator if the coronavirus crisis overwhelms hospitals in the UK. Currently the intensive care machines are limited to a one-to-one ratio but if critical care units become stacked with patients this could have to be reconsidered. The risk of infection becomes higher if … Read more
A 40-year-old tech boss has told how he watched helplessly as two patients died in front of him as he fought coronavirus in intensive care. Jozef Wallis, a fit and healthy father-of-two, began feeling ill after a night out in the pubs around London Bridge station two weeks ago. Despite suffering a raging fever and … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS? What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more
An A&E doctor in London has warned that even people in their 30s are fighting for their lives in intensive care because of the coronavirus crisis. Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, an emergency doctor and the Labour MP for Tooting, south London, revealed that doctors will soon have to start rationing life support machines. After working at shift … Read more
A ‘fit and healthy’ nurse, 36, on the frontline of the battle against coronavirus is now in critical condition after being diagnosed with the illness, her devastated family have revealed. Areema Nasreen, a mother-of-three, tested positive for the virus after developing a soaring temperature, body aches and a cough. The nurse, who has no underlying … Read more
A fit-and-healthy mother who struggled to breathe after being infected with coronavirus has issued a stark warning to fellow Britons to ‘not take any chances’. Tara Jane Langston, 39, filmed herself with her phone in the intensive care unit at Hillingdon Hospital in west London pleading with others to take the deadly COVID-19 seriously. She was … Read more