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On the frontline of the coronavirus crisis: Intensive care nurses and doctors battle to save Covid patients as it is warned London’s hospitals could be overwhelmed in two weeks Shattered staff at St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London say they are working 'to the limit' University College Hospital staff in London say that they're having to make choices about who gets treatment Medical director at NHS London Vin Diwakar provided the worrying analysis to medical directors in London Even if Covid patients grew at the lowest likely rate and capacity is increased NHS would still be s...

Staff at one of the country’s busiest hospitals have described the “unpredictability” of the second wave of coronavirus, which has seen previously healthy young patients die with Covid-19. Coronavirus deaths since the summer have been characterised partly by increased numbers of young adults being admitted to hospital. And staff at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, said they are treating patients in their 20s and 30s, many seriously ill. Salvatore Patinella, 30, senior staff nurse in the hospital’s acute dependency unit, told the PA news agency: “The situation is real...