ICU doctor warns hospitals are weeks behind the curve at 'critical' time

Published on February 5, 2021 - Duration: 02:01s

ICU doctor warns hospitals are weeks behind the curve at 'critical' time

Ben Attwood, 43, is an intensive care consultant at Warwick Hospital and associate medical director at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Despite a downward trend in coronavirus cases and hospital admissions, Dr Attwood said staff will not be able to cope if policy-makers โ€œtake their eye off the ballโ€.Dr Attwood said the delay between transmission of Covid-19 and the deterioration of patientsโ€™ conditions mean his hospital is still seeing patients โ€œwho might have been infected in the Christmas period and just afterโ€.


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