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My ex is the ICU manager/head nurse at Northwick Park Hospital, that declared a critical state a couple days ago. Our son in in isolation in Langkawi, Malaysia right now - he lives in Saigon and when his school closed down (he’s a teacher) due to the virus he went off for a break and is now confined there. He’s more worried about his mum who is right at the forefront of this, and is going to have repeated exposure to the virus, and she’s now 55 and a long-term smoker (like most nurses, wtf?) and a bit unfit. I spoke to her tonight, the first time in at least 5 years, to ask her to reassure our son as much as she can, and she did. She’s concerned of course, but he’s in a good place. As for her, she’s got her professional head on but it’s a tall order. They have 10 ICU beds there, and they’re one of the largest in London. She says there are approx 6,000 ICU beds in the whole of England. They’ve been told to expect upwards of a quarter of a million fatalities, and 10 times that in medical care. There is simply no way that the NHS can cope with numbers like that. Years of underinvestment has seen to that. Her parting words were “look after yourself, and stay safe”. This is from a critical care nurse with nearly 40 years in the job.
I’m more concerned again tonight.