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Inside a Welsh ICU during the coronavirus pandemic – photo essay – The Guardian

Consultant and photographer Nick Mason shares his experience and that of colleagues at the Royal Gwent hospital in Newport

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality. TS Eliot, Burnt Norton
Human memory is fickle. Only a few brief months ago, many intensive care units (ICUs) across Britain came close to being overwhelmed by patients with a novel coronavirus, unknown to medicine before January of this year, and causing potentially life-threatening lung disease in up to 20% of those it infects. With the relaxation of the lockdown, however only possible because it had been so effective and the good summer weather in whic…

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