Update from the frontline today. Tier 2 areas. Initially low but sharply rising rates.
Miss Z is home exhausted. Reports a good day with excellent support from seniors. Though apparently none were able to cannulise a patient!
Many very ill patients. Some so bad a team from a major London hospital have come down to undertake some specialist procedures.
When I delivered her lunch, there was a fleet of ambulances and medical equipment marked up with the London hospital's name and logo outside the hospital.
Miss Z reports that they were here to perform ECMO procedures on a number of very ill, and Miss Z states, surprisingly young patients with severe Covid infections.
ECMO: tinyurl.com/y6g3e4ve
The sooner we all get the vaccine the better.
Stay safe.
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