Britons not taking the coronavirus lockdown seriously could soon cause avoidable deaths , they are warned
Professor Chris Whitty warned hospitals could be overwhelmed in two weeks in a scathing article
Some 46,000 hospital workers are currently off sick with coronavirus as the NHS comes under pressure
Prof Whitty blasted coronavirus rulebreakers for being the link in a chain that will allow the virus to spread
London s Barking and Dagenham, the neighbouring borough of Redbridge and the Essex borough of Thurrock are all in the grips of a serious outbreak of the new mutant Covid strain.
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Doctors in overwhelmed London hospitals have begun triaging coronavirus patients to choose who gets critical care as medics warn the NHS is reaching the point where it simply won t be able to cope .
Doctors in the capital said a critical shortage of beds meant some hospitals were implementing emergency guidelines to prioritise treatment for patients with the best survival chances.
This means younger patients who are more-likely to survive will be offered critical care over the elderly, who are less likely to survive.
And intensive care medics on Britain s Covid frontline are extremely worried that case totals will keep increasing until the NHS simply won t be able to cope with it as Britons keep flouting lockdown.
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