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A frontline nurse working in New York on coronavirus patients claims the city is killing sufferers by putting them on ventilators. ‘It’s a horror movie,’ she said through a friend. ‘Not because of the disease, but the way it is being handled.’ And she said relatives of the sick need to make it clear as … Read more
Britain sends £2.5million of PPE gear and even ventilators 5,000 miles round the world to St Helena – even though tiny island has NO cases of coronavirus Masks, gloves, gowns and five ventilators were sent to island in Atlantic Ocean Comes amid warnings of crippling shortages of PPE within the NHS Two reports of people … Read more
Nearly 90 per cent of COVID-19 patients who were placed on ventilators in New York’s largest health system DIED – and almost all of those hospitalized had underlying health conditions The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday, examined the electronic health records of 5,700 patients Final outcomes were known … Read more
Engineers from formula 1, Rolls-Royce and Airbus are making ten years worth of ventilators in 10 weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic, a consortium boss has revealed. VentilatorChallengeUK (VCUK) consortium head Dick Elsy, which was formed in mid-March following calls for companies to shift production to ventilators, said a ‘dream team of British engineering’ was at … Read more
An intensive care nurse has told of the moment she switched off a dying coronavirus patient’s ventilator and held her hands until she passed away while her daughter listened on the phone. Juanita Nittla, 42, has revealed how she watched ‘the heart rate hit zero’ after she turned off the machine keeping the victim alive … Read more
His face contorted with worry, a young casualty doctor sends a desperate message to the world. He has watched over the beds of hundreds of coronavirus patients, and now believes they are dying because of the very treatment that is meant to save them. After being rushed into hospital, they are knocked out by sedatives … Read more
The BBC has donated fully working ventilators from the set of medical drama Holby City to the new Nightingale Hospital in London The corporation shared the news in a tweet, showing workers loading equipment into a van. Holby City executive producer Simon Harper said: ‘We are only too happy to help out and do what … Read more
At least 80 percent of coronavirus patients in New York City who have been put on a ventilator have died. As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can. The reason: Some hospitals have reported unusually high … 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
Disability advocate, 26, with lung disease reveals she’s ‘preparing to die’ because her life won’t be considered a ‘priority’ by doctors deciding who should be given ventilators Lucy Watts, 26, has penned a series of blogs about the casualties of covid-19 Advocate from Essex, suffers a life-limiting condition requiring 24-hour care Fears her life won’t … Read more