Health
As the death toll soars, will a lockdown be enough to stop the UK’s mutant COVID-19 strain? – ABC News
The UK has recorded its highest daily death toll and highest number of new infections as it battles a new mutant variant of COVID-19. So how did it get to this…
On an evening shift in a busy London hospital last week, intensive care nurse Dave Carr came across a senior doctor standing next to a vending machine.
She was crying, he recalled, and when he asked what was wrong, she simply said she could not decide if she wanted a cup of tea or coffee.
It was a tipping point at the end of a long, hard shift.
For Dave Carr, the moment typified the strain all British medical staff are under as hospitals struggle to cope with the alarming surge in COVID-19 patients.
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