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A train company has been accused of ‘cashing in’ on frontline NHS staff trying to get to work amid the coronavirus crisis. Thousands of ‘key workers’ up and down the UK are still having to get public transport while the rest of the country is on lockdown. But Southeastern has been slammed by commuters for … Read more
By Jessica Rach for MailOnline Expert has revealed how the practice of touching your face can be instrumental in spreading diseases like coronavirus Dr. James Cherry, an infectious diseases expert at UCLA, advised wearing gloves or using a sterile contraption to touch your face Author Martin Grunwald revealed politicians are extensively trained not to touch … Read more
Intensive care nurse in her 20s ‘kills herself’ at King’s College Hospital in London where eight coronavirus patients have died Woman was in her 20s and worked as nurse at King’s College intensive care unit She was found unresponsive at south London hospital at 5.30pm on Monday KCH has had eight people die from coronavirus … Read more
A luxury hotel chain in Switzerland is offering a quarantine package to its guests that includes in-room coronavirus testing, doctor visits and 24-hour nursing care. Le Bijou is a part hotel, part serviced apartments company, and operates its luxury accommodation across Switzerland in cities including Zurich, Geneva and Basel. With around 20% of the global … Read more
Red eyes may be a tell-tale sign of coronavirus: Nurse who treated patients in Seattle nursing home says they ALL shared the facial ‘symptom’ Chelsey Earnest is a nurse at Life Care Center in Kirkland, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Washington state She said redness around the eyes was the most important sign that … 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
As a clinician for the NHS 111 medical helpline, I have had to talk a mother through an unplanned home birth, diagnose a heart attack and decide whether to send the only available ambulance to a baby with breathing difficulties or a man with chest pain – while fending off abusive callers, some of whom … Read more
A distraught critical care nurse who was unable to buy basic foods following a 48-hour shift has urged shoppers to stop stripping supermarket shelves amid the coronavirus pandemic. In her heartbreaking appeal, Dawn Bilbrough, 51, from York, who had just completed a lengthy and exhausting shift, explained that she had visited her supermarket to pick … Read more
An ‘exhausted’ nurse drowned when her car submerged in a river after she clocked off from her busy A&E department night shift, an inquest has heard. Laurie Jones, 23, from Caerphilly, Wales, was reported missing after she left the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff at 1.40am wearing her blue nurse’s scrubs on October 2 last … Read more
A Colorado nurse who contracted the deadly coronavirus said her illness has been nothing like she expected. Lisa Merck, 50, from Crested Butte, said it was after returning from a two-week trip to Hawaii with her husband that she began feeling sick. She said it started with sniffles, before advancing to left-side body aches, shortness … Read more